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A proposed restriction on cannabis cultivation sites to outside a half-mile exclusion zone around churches and schools may be dropped, the Government signalled tonight.
The announcement came after officials launched an online public consultation on d...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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News Staff
Bermuda Hospitals Board is pleased to inform referring physicians and the diving community that its hyperbaric chamber services will resume on 1 July 2020 for elective and emergency service.
The hyperbaric chamber is a treatment chamber used for cert...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
Hospitality stakeholders are invited to join a Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) webinar next week aimed at preparing the local industry for the second half of 2020.
The free, 90-minute “Tourism Readiness Webinar,” scheduled 12:30 pm to 2 pm (ADT) Mond...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
Most of the crew on the Bermuda container ship MV Oleander have reached or gone past the end of their regular three-month contracts, but are unable to travel home or take shore leave because of the coronavirus crisis.
Strict precautions to prevent Co...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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Another 41 Covid-19 test results were received by the Ministry of Health today and all were clear.
Bermuda has had 146 confirmed cases and five of those are active.
One person is in hospital but not in critical care.
Nine people with the disease have...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Major investments in the island’s care home sector will be needed to cope with a “tsunami” of ageing seniors.
Patrice Horner, of specialist financial advice service Senior Solutions, said the development of affordable options to look after the growin...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new dock has been built at an East End park, despite the lack of government approval for the work.
Workers at the site said the dock, at Rocky Hill Park in St George’s, was a replacement for one that had fallen into disrepair.
A worker at the site,...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A garbage collector was hurt after an unemptied spray paint can exploded over a three-man crew.
A Ministry of Public Works spokesman said that the aerosol can exploded when the bag it was in was put in the government trash truck’s waste compactor and...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Teachers voted yesterday to take a 10 per cent salary cut for a year as part of the fightback from the economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers and associated staff unanimously backed the move at a special gen...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A charity set up to protect Bermuda’s bluebirds has appealed to the public to help them save the species.
Stuart Smith, of the Bermuda Bluebird Society, said the group hoped to collect information about eastern bluebird nests island-wide so they coul...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes