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A plan to help homeless men and women housed by the Government after a coronavirus curfew was imposed is in the works, the City of Hamilton said yesterday.
A temporary shelter, at CedarBridge Academy in Prospect, will cease to operate after the curfe...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Catholic churches will be open for Mass next week in the final stage of reopening the island, the Bishop of Hamilton said yesterday.
However, the Most Reverend Wieslaw Spiewak, the Roman Catholic Bishop, added the elderly and children should stay at ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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Unusually low tides this month were explained yesterday by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
The research station, based in St George’s, reported that tides were running three to four inches lower than predicted.
Rush Curry, a Bios scientist, ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A group set up to help non-profit organisations cope with the Covid-19 pandemic handed out more than $1.5 million in donations over just two months, its close-out report has shown.
The Third Sector Co-ordinated Crisis Response Effort thanked people a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Dust on car windshields this weekend will have journeyed thousands of miles to reach the island.
A plume of Sahara Desert dust, which has blanketed the Caribbean in a haze this week before it swept northeast to the United States, has made its way to ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Weather
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Measures designed to slow the spread of Covid-19 resulted in cleaner air, an environmental study has found.
Drew Pettit, the director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the department recorded a “noticeable improvement” in a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
All of the 160 coronavirus test results that came back to the Ministry of Health yesterday were clear.
The number of confirmed cases remained at 146 and 134 of them have recovered. There were three active cases with one patient in hospital, but not i...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A labour dispute between the Attorney-General’s Chambers and a white-collar union has been declared, over liability insurance for government lawyers.
Ed Ball, the general secretary of the Bermuda Public Services Union, said yesterday the dispute revo...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Silicon Valley start-up has picked six young Bermudians to work as summer interns.
Derek Tucker-Peters, Tyler Trott, Zara Francis Roban, Malachi Butterfield, Tyrese Coakley, and Zar’a Cardell are all working remotely for The @ Company, a Californi...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The family of a woman injured in a brutal machete attack thanked the public yesterday for their response to an appeal for assistance to help her move from the house where the horrific assault happened.
Kennae Wade, the sister of Kenneita Wade, who su...
DATE: Jun 27, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell