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Hotel occupancy levels viewed through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic have left a resort’s general manager J.P. Martens “excited”.
Mr Martens, of Grotto Bay Beach Resort, said: “If it was a regular year, I would be crying right now at the numbers I...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The One Bermuda Alliance claimed tax increases under the Progressive Labour Party have left Bermudians with less cash in their pockets.
But the PLP defended its tax policies, which it argued aimed to address inequality and gave breaks to small busine...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A visitor who arrived from Britain tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend.
It was the single positive among 919 test results received by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
The person who tested positive arrived on the British Airways f...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A church breakfast programme for the homeless is to beef up security after a fight broke out on Saturday at its weekly gathering, a spokesman said yesterday.
David Thompson, of the “Loads of Love” programme at Christ Church in Warwick, said the organ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A cross-section of supporters who helped a back-to-school campaign raise more than $155,000 showed “Bermuda cares”, one of the organiser’s said.
Gina Spence, founder of the social services charity Gina Spence Productions, added that about 1,000 child...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Royal Bermuda Regiment’s Commanding Officer promised a bright future for the island’s soldiers as he laid out his plans for the battalion to evolve.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ben Beasley, the youngest CO in the RBR’s 55-year history, said he aimed to fo...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Residents were urged to step up their hurricane preparations as the island steels itself for possible of storms amid the coronavirus pandemic.
National security minister Renée Ming said people should stock up on personal protective equipment in addit...
DATE: Aug 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Police tonight asked for help finding a teenager who has gone missing for a third time.
Nolldre Brown, 16, was last seen at the bus depot in St George’s on Friday at about 9.25pm.
He is black, about 5ft 8in, slim and with little facial hair.
He was l...
DATE: Aug 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Six motorists were fined $1,500 each and banned from the roads for 18 months after they admitted impaired driving charges in Magistrates’ Court.
Magistrate Maxanne Anderson heard that motorcyclist Cesar Zepeda Gonzalez, 21, from St George’s, was invo...
DATE: Aug 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A Progressive Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Assembly for almost eight years announced yesterday that he will not stand in the October 1 General Election.
Rolfe Commissiong, who was the MP for Pembroke South East before Parliament wa...
DATE: Aug 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter