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A top businessman, lawyer and sailor whose seafaring roots went back centuries on the island has died.
Nicholas Bayard Dill Jr, who competed in several Newport Bermuda sailing races and other championships, was 88.
Mr Dill rose to senior partner at l...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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Other
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Traditional Hallowe’en festivities should be axed because of the real-life horror show of Covid-19, the health minister said last night.
Kim Wilson told the public that high-risk activities “that you should definitely not do this year” included tradi...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A man was stabbed in the chest in the Dockyard in the early hours of yesterday.
A police spokesman said: “Upon arrival, officers observed a male lying on his back at the entrance to Snorkel Park and bleeding from a stab wound to his chest.”
He added ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A new team at the helm of Belco is expected to restore faith in the power company, the Minister of Home Affairs said yesterday.
Walter Roban claimed that public confidence in the electricity provider was at an “all-time low” — but predicted that woul...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A supermarket chain has launched an attempt to recruit from the ranks of laid-off workers at the Fairmont Southampton hotel.
The plan was revealed after more than 700 jobs were lost because the hotel is to shut for about two years for major renovatio...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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The Royal Gazette, in conjunction with The Washington Post News Service and Bloomberg News is offering The Washington Post’s livestream programming of the presidential and vice-presidential debates.
Today, Vice-President Mike Pence and Democratic vi...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
RG Live
The impact and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic is to be the focus of the annual Bermuda Tourism Summit next week.
The summit, organised by the Bermuda Tourism Authority, has the theme “Reset, Reimagine, Renew: Agility in Focus”.
The BTA said the ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The One Bermuda Alliance is down — but not out, its leader has said.
Craig Cannonier, the Leader of the Opposition, said, despite the Progressive Labour Party’s landslide 30-6 General Election triumph, the OBA was still viable.
Mr Cannonier added: “W...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The director of the Bermuda Weather Service will be a virtual panellist at an extreme weather summit today.
Mark Guishard was invited to speak at the Atlantic International Research Centre’s All-Atlantic Summit after he met a senior member of the or...
DATE: Oct 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Bermuda Union of Teachers praised the profession yesterday for its hard work in the face of Covid-19 in a video created to mark World Teachers Day.
The video, presented to Education International — a global organisation made up of teaching unions...
DATE: Oct 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes