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No new cases of Covid-19 were recorded today out of almost 1,000 test results.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that 955 test results came back and none were positive for the coronavirus.
The total number of cases remains at 177, but the...
DATE: Sep 10, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s first child case of Covid-19 was logged yesterday after a ten-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the youngster was one of two positive cases of the illness out of 2,140 test results that h...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The homes of people in St David’s were razed to protect the tourism industry, a Commission of Inquiry was told yesterday.
Jean Foggo Simon, a researcher at the St David’s Island Historical Society, said many poor, black Bermudian families lost their ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former broadcast journalist in Bermuda has swapped sides of the camera in a fight to end the abuse of temple elephants in India.
Sangita Iyer, the environmental correspondent at ZBM for three years, said she planned to use renewed interest in anima...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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Meteorologists are watching two tropical storms which could approach Bermuda next week.
Tropical Storm Paulette and Tropical Storm Rene were not considered threats to the island last night — but the storms are expected to get closer to the island in ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s private schools have introduced strict Covid-19 safety precautions for the new school year.
Warwick Academy, Saltus Grammar School and the Bermuda High School outlined the steps they had taken to protect pupils and staff.
These include c...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Prosecutors ruled there was not enough evidence to press criminal charges against two teenagers in connection with an attack on lambs last year, it has been revealed.
The news came after the two were arrested in April 2019 in the wake of a social-med...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A man was fined $1,500 and banned from the roads after he admitted obstruction of police officers and drink-driving.
LaWayne Fubler pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court last Friday to the offences, which were committed on July 29 in Sandys.
The 35-ye...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The One Bermuda Alliance unveiled two political newcomers yesterday to fight for seats won by the Progressive Labour Party at the last General Election.
Nicky Gurret will run in Sandys South Central and Thomas Harvey will fight St George’s West.
Ms G...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A 31-year-old man has denied accusations that he posted “intimate videos” of a former lover to the internet without her consent.
The man, from St George’s, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to two counts of sending videos of “an inde...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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