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A charity thrift store is to hold its first outdoor market today to try to keep its elderly volunteers safe from Covid-19.
Isabella Hall, the spokeswoman for Encore Thrift Shop, the fundraising arm of St John’s Church in Pembroke, said most of the sh...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Premier has appealed to the Governor to ask court officials to accept a 10 per cent salary cut “in the spirit of shared sacrifice”.
Mr Burt confirmed that court staff had threatened industrial action over the proposed reductions.
He said at Thurs...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An expanded government laboratory will be set up at Bermuda College to help train scientists in an “amazing” achievement for the island, the Premier said.
David Burt revealed that Carika Weldon, a geneticist, will move back home from Britain to set u...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A new case of Covid-19 was logged yesterday after almost 800 tests came back to the Ministry of Health.
A ministry spokeswoman said the transmission route for the latest victim had not been established — but that it was on-island rather than coming i...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo has reopened all its attractions to the public.
The Flatts institution was closed for 113 days and opted to reopen in a phased approach — the aquarium opened at the start of July and the zoo a week later.
But Rob...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The first election advertisement of the General Election campaign was launched yesterday by the Progressive Labour Party.
A party official said the advert featured the PLP Government’s response to the Covid-19 campaign, leadership and which party was...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The health ministry’s Covid-19 hotline is back in service, it was revealed this afternoon.
The line and the rest of the telephone network at the ministry’s headquarters were out of order earlier today.
A spokeswoman for the ministry said that technic...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A police officer who was fired for using “excessive force” on a teenage suspect after a high-speed chase has won an appeal against the decision.
Police Constable Oswin Pereira was found by a disciplinary panel of the Bermuda Police Service to have st...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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Court
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A man was arrested after a passing police patrol saw suspected cannabis plants in flowerpots outside a house.
The officers were on mobile patrol when they saw the plants at a home on Pearman’s Hill West, Warwick, at about 9.20am on Wednesday.
A Bermu...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A fourth business has been exposed to Covid-19, it was revealed yesterday.
The Devil’s Isle restaurant was told a breakfast customer on Monday morning later tested positive for the coronavirus.
Now two members of staff at the Hamilton restaurant who...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan