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Police officers have caught ten people in breach of the 11pm curfew since Friday - with one offender stopped twice.
A police spokesman said today that curfew checks were carried out at several locations over the weekend to enforce the measures, intro...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermudians living in London and the south-east of England can still travel home over the holiday season, despite new lockdown laws in the UK.
A Government spokeswoman today appealed to Bermudians in the UK to stick to the UK restrictions.
But she add...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than 300 properties were without power this afternoon after a utility pole fault.
A spokesman for power firm Belco said engineers had been sent to fix the problem in Southampton.
Belco said in a tweet: “We're aware of an outage currently affecti...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A sailor on a British tanker was brought to Bermuda this morning after he suffered facial injuries.
The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said it received a satellite phone call from the tanker British Sponsor about the injured sailor shortly before...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A trio of filmmakers ventured far from home for their latest film production – to the snow-covered Scottish mountains.
Andrew Kirkpatrick, Nhuri Bashir and Jermaine Simons of Burnt House Productions all had roles behind the scenes in the production o...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A scam claimed that a $30,000 grant was available after some fees are paid, police warned today.
The public was told to ignore the supposed scheme, which circulated on social media.
A Bermuda Police Service spokesman said: “One incident of this natur...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A total of 11 new cases of the coronavirus were identified at the weekend.
The cases were among 1,374 results that came back to health officials on Saturday.
Three cases came in from overseas – one resident and two visitors from the British Airways ...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Information Commissioner’s Office has closed its Church Street office for the Christmas period, with immediate effect.
A spokeswoman for the ICO said that the closure was unrelated to Covid-19.
The Maxwell Roberts Building office will remain clo...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public schools will reopen at the start of the new term next year on a remote basis, it was revealed tonight.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said the regime would run from January 5 to January 12.
Mr Rabain said: “Teachers will begin online l...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Controversial trade union legislation that sparked a firestorm of opposition from unions will face its final debate in the Senate today.
But Jason Hayward, the labour minister, signalled that unions had softened their stance after they condemned legi...
DATE: Dec 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell