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Slashing hotel room rates, implementing a blockchain-based system for infrastructure, using home-grown Christmas trees and building a cannabis industry were among ideas for boosting the economy that readers have shared.
The Royal Gazette invited sugg...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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A first-of-its-kind Gombey performance recording will form the grand finale of a virtual Bermuda Day Parade tomorrow, one of the event’s organisers promised yesterday.
Qian Dickinson, of the social-media platform Bermemes, said that the team had work...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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A controversial businessman who helped to make his family’s beauty products firm into “one of the largest private companies in the United States” is to take up a diplomatic post in Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday.
The US State Department said that...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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A charity set up to support children through crises has relaunched its anti-domestic abuse campaign after an increase in reported incidents over the Covid-19 lockdown.
Family Centre reminded people of the need to protect defenceless young people.
San...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
Thefts from farms have increased since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, farmers confirmed on Tuesday.
Rowland Hill Jr, the owner of J&J Produce in Devonshire, said his operation had suffered from “night farmers” for several years and the problem had...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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A man was jailed yesterday after he admitted to a second breach of curfew in a month.
David Fubler, 58, pleaded guilty to a charge that he was away from his home on Monday night.
However, the Devonshire man denied a charge that he had prowled outside...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Another 30 cruise ship calls have been cancelled by two cruise lines after they extended a halt to operations until August 1.
The grim news from Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean brought the total of cancelled trips to the island to at least ...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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The arrest of a woman prison officer at Westgate prison sparked a protest by colleagues outside Hamilton Police Station yesterday.
Prison officers walked off the job and gathered outside the Victoria Street police offices in support of their colleagu...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
An historic space mission scheduled to take off from Florida yesterday afternoon has been postponed until the weekend.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launch was rescheduled because of bad weather.
Nasa is to use a private company, ...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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A watersports business that faces a diminished summer season because of the Covid-19 crisis is hoping locals will take on-island staycations and experience the fun it offers for themselves.
BDA Water Sports was geared up for a bumper year as it moved...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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