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Tropical Depression 5 is no longer a threat to the island, the Bermuda Weather Service said today.
The storm brought thunderstorms, rain and winds of up to 34mph as it passed Bermuda shortly after midnight.
At 6am today, it was about 70 miles north o...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Restaurants and bars moved into the “new normal” this week, but it will not be until later that the impact of a relaxation of Covid-19 rules can be assessed.
Chris Garland, the general manager of Harbourside Holdings, which owns Flanagan’s Irish Pub ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight for more than three months yesterday.
Karla Aitken collected her daughter, Ashley, 23, who had at last managed to return from college in Denmark — but the joy of homecoming was marred by sadness ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teenager denied theft and trespassing charges yesterday.
Aurelien Corona-Valett, 18, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the theft of Adderall prescription pills and three bottles of alcohol after he trespassed at a Pembroke home.
He also p...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Legislation to give businesses more time before they have to make laid-off staff redundant will be debated in the House of Assembly today.
The Employment Amendment Act 2020 will maintain the requirement for employees laid off for more than four month...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of a blackmail demand for $75,000 from a father and daughter.
Lu Zhao, 35, was charged with making an “unwarranted demand with menaces” to the man between May 19 and June 12.
She was also charg...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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About 4,500 people who were on emergency unemployment benefits have returned to work, the Minister of Finance said last night.
Curtis Dickinson said that the scheme has put about $43 million in the hands of 10,100 unemployed people since it started, ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Premier dismissed “malicious messages” on social media last night that criticised the island’s Covid-19 test laboratories.
David Burt defended the abilities of Carika Weldon, a Bermudian biochemist and researcher at the Oxford Genomics Centre, pa...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday in connection with a motorcycle collision that killed another man.
Ishmael Lightbourne, 40, was charged with causing the death of Shannon-Hugh Davis, 39, by driving with a dangerous drug in his system.
T...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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A man who had been charged with attempted murder claimed it was unconstitutional for a Crown prosecutor to bypass ten potential jurors — all of whom appeared to be black people.
Jahmico Trott, in a civil action launched in the Supreme Court, claimed ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter