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Backbench MP Jason Hayward was sworn in yesterday as the Minister of Labour as part of a surprise Cabinet reshuffle by the Premier.
Mr Hayward will take over responsibility for immigration, financial assistance and workforce development, earlier spli...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda will move to the third phase of relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions on Thursday, it was announced last night, but public schools will stay shut until September.
David Burt, the Premier, said the final details of the next stage of a return to ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The appointment process for the Commissioner of Education post was “fatally flawed”, a lawyer claimed this week.
Mark Diel, who represented veteran teacher and education administrator Gina Tucker, told the Court of Appeal on Wednesday that the Board ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The death of an unarmed black man at the hands of American police officers has sparked a surge of interest in an island antiracism group, its president said yesterday.
Lynne Winfield, the chairwoman of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said the o...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Hundreds of laid-off hotel workers have applied to take money from their pension fund — only to find that they are ineligible for a $12,000 withdrawal option under emergency relief rules.
The island’s hotel workers number more than 2,000 and most of ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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Other
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Residency rules and immigration policies are important factors for Bermuda to address as it grapples with the economic challenges and “existential issues” arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is the advice from the Financial Policy Council, which...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Updates on the plan to reopen schools, borrowing agreements between the Government and banks, and the national space strategy after the American launch of the SpaceX-manned rocket will be dealt with in ministerial statements in the House of Assembly ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Bermuda aims to tap into the lucrative space industry under a plan announced by the Deputy Premier today.
Walter Roban unveiled the five-year Bermuda National Space Strategy put together by a team of local and international experts.
Mr Roban told the...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
This Friday marks the 1 year anniversary of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Bermuda, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), and the Waitt Institute to form the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme (BOPP)....
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
A man was fined $2,000 in Magistrates’ Court after a traffic stop turned violent.
Marcus Fox, 28, admitted he resisted arrest, made false statements and obstructed justice.
The court heard on Wednesday that Fox was stopped by police at the junction o...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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