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The Government was accused yesterday of withholding information about a controversial dinner party that cost two Cabinet ministers their jobs.
MPs heard yesterday that an application for 130 guests at Blu Bar & Grill Restaurant, dated June 26, was se...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A controversial part of Bermuda’s jury selection procedure was ruled yesterday to be in breach of the Constitution by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Narinder Hargun said the Criminal Code section that allowed prosecutors to stand down an unlimited ...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Schools are on track to reopen in September after a “mammoth task” to create safety rules to reduce the risk of Covid-19, the education minister said yesterday.
Diallo Rabain added that social-distancing requirements and a 30-minute health check ever...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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The Government is to raise the debt ceiling by $600 million to $3.5 billion.
Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, tabled an amendment to the Government Loans Act 1978 to raise the statutory borrowing limit in the House of Assembly yesterday.
He ad...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Now could be the perfect moment for Bermudians to reconnect in greater numbers with the restaurant and hospitality sector.
Fosco Nannini’s new book was written to pass on guidance and tales of his experiences after a lifetime in the industry to the p...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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Other
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Mary Prince, the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom, wrote a book and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain, is to have a park renamed in her honour.
Devonshire Bay Park on the South Shore will also get a monument to commemorat...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Governor has met the new United States Consul General.
Lee Rizzuto Jr, who arrived in Bermuda this week, visited Government House with his wife, Denise, to meet John Rankin, who said: “It was a pleasure to meet Mr and Mrs Rizzuto and to welcome t...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Police have launched an investigation after shots were fired in a residential street.
Shortly after 11.15pm on Thursday, police found forensic evidence of gunfire on the road and on a staircase on Middletown Drive in Pembroke.
They also found bullets...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A teenager was sentenced to two years’ probation yesterday after pleading guilty to a trio of offences in Magistrates’ Court.
Tejai Ford, 17, of Warwick appeared for sentencing before senior magistrate Juan Wolffe.
Ford was the pillion passenger on a...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Another positive case of Covid-19 has been recorded by the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry said this evening that out of 1,165 test results received on Friday and Saturday, the only positive case was imported on the Delta flight 656 from Atlanta on ...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff