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On July 31st, 2020, a former Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) employee was gifted a basil plant, which had been purchased at a local plant nursery.
Accompanying the yellowing basil plant was a healthy, vigorously growing dodder ...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
BASE is pleased to share that it was recently able to make donations to students and families with Autism and other sensory challenges who attended Camp Pawpaw this summer.
Fourteen students were each given a gift bag filled with a variety of sensor...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
The bus service was due to resume at 11.30am today.
Buses were expected to be down between 10am and 1pm as drivers and management held a meeting over the school service which is due to resume in September.
The Department of Public Transportation anno...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
New medical equipment that doubles the hospital’s oxygen capacity will save lives should Bermuda face a second surge of Covid-19 patients, the hospital’s chief executive said today.
Bermuda Hospitals Board switched on its new oxygenator, and thanked ...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Ministry of Labour is pleased to announce that through a collaboration with Pro-Tone Cleaning Services Ltd (PT), and Bermuda Cleaning Limited (BC), twelve Bermudians will have the opportunity to secure full-time employment over the next six month...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
Religious and sport groups united after a senior Anglican priest was paralysed from the neck down after a freak accident.
The Reverend Canon Norman Lynas was seriously injured after he fell down a flight of stairs. Members of different faiths, as wel...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Audubon Society is to object to an application to renew approval for a development on the grounds of historic Walsingham House, the organisation’s president said yesterday.
The Hamilton Parish property, home to Tom Moore’s Tavern, is owne...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The Covid-19 pandemic had a silver lining for some because it allowed people to spend more time with their families, a survey released yesterday found.
Almost one third — 31 per cent — of people canvassed said isolation at home and social-distancing ...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Pollution from the Belco power station was condemned by householders in the area yesterday — including a veteran environmentalist who has highlighted the problem for decades.
Gary Hayward, a lifelong resident of Twin Lane Place, which overlooks the p...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Two men were rescued by firefighters after they were overcome by fumes while cleaning a water tank.
Firefighters wearing breathing gear pulled the unconscious pair from the tank and also removed the cleaning product that caused the problem.
The men w...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan