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Bermuda College lecturers made sure that their students graduated despite the Covid-19 pandemic and a forced move to online learning.
A total of 107 graduates will mark the end of an unprecedented academic year of challenges by collecting their asso...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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Education
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The public are not taking the dire consequences of failure to stick to Covid-19 rules seriously enough, an Opposition senator said yesterday.
Jarion Richardson warned that not enough attention was being paid to the mounting death toll by the pandemic...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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Politics
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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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Other
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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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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
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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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
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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CATEGORY:
Crime
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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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CATEGORY:
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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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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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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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell