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Civil rights campaigners raised concerns with the Commissioner of Police yesterday about an investigation into a social-media post made just before a march in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jasmine Brangman and Dynera Bean, of Black Live...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Jobless expatriate workers from the Philippines — most from Bermuda’s hard-hit hospitality sector — face an uncertain future at home as they prepared to quit the island today.
Others from the South-East Asian country of 100 million people remained in...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A mentally disabled sex offender was sentenced to three weeks at the Prison Farm yesterday to allow a psychiatric hospital to prepare to look after him.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe also reminded the mother of Khayriek Woolridge, 27, who was present...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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Court
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Digital nomads with permission to work from Bermuda under a new one-year residential certificate could start to arrive as early as next week, the Premier said last night.
David Burt was speaking after Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the f...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The worst-case model for a year of Covid-19 was updated last night — with lower numbers of deaths than estimated at the start of the pandemic.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the new model suggested, at worst, a possible 1,600 in hospital and 2...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Government took steps last night to correct an erroneous classification of the island’s Covid-19 risk status by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Government said that the CDC has classified Bermuda’s Covid-19 risk sta...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Graduates of a government summer internship programme were recognised yesterday for their hard work and dedication in the field of power engineering.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, congratulated Marcal Wilkinson, Hezeki...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A series of stamps were launched to mark the 400th anniversary of Bermuda’s Parliament yesterday.
Politicians past and present gathered outside the historic St Peter’s Church, in St George, where the Governor, Nathaniel Butler, convened the first sit...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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News Staff
The Government has received part repayment from a gambling addict who conned it out of $2 million.
Jeffrey Bevan, a Welsh book-keeper who worked in the Accountant-General’s office between 2011 and 2013, admitted laundering a fortune stolen from the G...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Changes at HSBC are not expected to result in widespread redundancies at one of its Hamilton branches, a spokeswoman for the bank said last night.
The spokeswoman said: “When the Church Street branch reopens in September we will implement a modified ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall