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A beach club is to reopen to guests a week on Friday, the managing director said yesterday.
Tom Lamb, of Pompano Beach Club in Southampton, said: “We are happy to reopen back up finally.”
He added: “The virus has been tough on all of us. It has been ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Bermuda will say goodbye to a “legend in the community” when musician and grassroots activist Cleveland Simmons leaves to live in Britain, a former culture minister has said.
Dale Butler was speaking at a farewell concert organised by Mr Simmons, who...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Keen birdwatcher Paul Watson had a spring to remember.
Perched at Cooper’s Point in June, Mr Watson counted some 2,500 great shearwater in just 80 minutes, he reported in the summer edition of the Bermuda Audubon Society newsletter.
Mr Watson said: “...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A queue of about 50 people lined up outside the Perot Post Office yesterday as travellers waited to get coronavirus tests.
The line stretched into Queen Elizabeth Park, off Queen Street, in Hamilton, at about 11am as visitors and returned residents t...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Many black people will be frozen out of legal cannabis use because they will be unable to afford an annual $750 licence fee for personal cultivation, campaigners warned yesterday.
Social Justice Bermuda said the fee could keep the illegal cannabis ma...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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A plant nursery had sold seeds and seedlings that could be contaminated with a parasitic vine.
Aberfeldy Nurseries said it had sold 44 packets of imported seeds, which may contain the dodder parasite, and six customers had been accounted for.
Julie G...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Three men and a woman were arrested after a brutal attack on a vulnerable man in Hamilton in the early hours of yesterday.
The group hit the victim several times with an object and punched him on the head and body.
A police spokesman said the victim ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Two police officers have contracted Covid-19, it was revealed last night.
A police spokesman said one of the officers tested positive after returning from overseas and the other may have contracted the coronavirus on the island.
He added: “Both offic...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Sandcastle sculptors will be asked to reflect the unprecedented events of this year in the annual Bermuda Sandcastle Competition.
Hannah Emmerson, the organiser of the event, said it would be the first time in 25 years that the competition would have...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Three positive cases of Covid-19 were imported on the JetBlue flight from New York on Friday, the Ministry of Health reported over the weekend.
All were residents who did not have pre-departure tests, and contact tracing began on Saturday to isolate ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell