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A Bermudian firm hired to manage the construction of a major solar energy plant at the airport has been fired, a source said yesterday.
Noesis Consulting Limited were announced in May as the project managers for the six-megawatt solar farm on a 19 ac...
DATE: Oct 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police have appealed for help after the discovery of three packages of suspected drugs in the waters off the South Shore.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said the first package was found by a visitor to the island just before 1pm on Monday while s...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A farmer’s mission to see “mini-farming” adopted in Bermuda had yet to be fully embraced before the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
But interest in Chris Faria’s “grow biointensive” method of farming has blossomed as people begin to take responsibility for th...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government.
Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda National Library reopened this morning after a four-day closure to repair a sewage line.
The Queen Street, Hamilton branch closed late last Friday afternoon after a staff toilet on the first floor of the building backed up into the staff-...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Tomorrow, 15 October, the Department of Statistics will observe the 12th Annual Caribbean Statistics Day. Also another milestone will be observed this month, the 3rd World Statistics Day on the 20th October.
The latter is celebrated every five years....
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A double hit from hurricanes did little to increase below-average rainfall for the year, the Bermuda Weather Service said yesterday.
The BWS had recorded 37.48in since the start of the year – more than 7in below the average of 44.63in for the same pe...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Five civil service permanent secretaries have been reassigned to new posts, the head of the public service announced today.
Derrick Binns said: “The swearing in of new Cabinet ministers is an opportunity to revisit the assignments of the senior-most...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A group launched to encourage people to get active donated a bench at a beauty spot to mark the organisation’s 30th anniversary.
The Walking Club of Bermuda arranged for the seat to be installed at Spanish Point Park in Pembroke.
Lovette Tannock, the...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A pair of Uighur men brought to Bermuda from a US jail in Cuba have said they hoped to move to Canada to be with their families.
Salahidin Abdulahad and Khalil Mamut have asked for permission to follow their wives and children to Canada.
But the Cana...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes