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A total of three new cases of coronavirus have been detected – two classed as on-island transmissions with known contacts.
The third was a resident who flew home on the Air Canada flight last Friday from Toronto, and tested positive on the Day 4 test...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The owners of a luxury resort responsible for the desecration of a graveyard said they had taken steps to protect the historic site and ensure that it was maintained “in perpetuity”.
A lawyer for the owners of the Rosewood Bermuda resort and golf cou...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The leader of an anti-substance abuse charity said it hoped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help the organisation expand.
Leslie Grant, the executive director of Focus Counselling Services, added there were plans for building proj...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Men who struggled with substance abuse problems have revealed how a charity had helped them make positive changes in their lives.
Clients of Focus Counselling Services said the organisation’s programmes supported their paths to recovery.
One, whose ...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Black nurse who cared for civil rights activist, parliamentarian and doctor EF Gordon on his deathbed has died.
Moira Cann, 90, shielded Dr Gordon from the racist treatment she endured at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital during segregation unt...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Fossil fuel-powered vehicles should be replaced by electric ones as early as 2030 to protect the environment, a conservationist has said.
David Wingate also recommended new the establishment of clean public transport on the Railway Trail to help slow...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A “wholesale review”of Bermuda’s tax system will be completed by the end of the year after legislation was passed in the Senate yesterday.
The Tax Reform Commission Amendment Act 2020 – which will enable the Minister of Finance to set up the commissi...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Members of the public should trust medical experts over vaccinations, an author for one of the world’s top medical journals said yesterday.
Kieran Walsh, the clinical director of the British Medical Journal’s BMJ Best Practice, said that more effort ...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A proposal to create a career development programme at Bermuda College has been given the green light by the planning department.
The application proposed the construction of an additional floor on top of the Hallett Hall Testing Centre Annex.
The ex...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government’s plan to close eight primaries could lead to protests at the House of Assembly, the president of a Parent Teacher Association at an under-threat school warned yesterday.
Harry Matthie, head of the PTA at high-performing St George’s Prepa...
DATE: Jan 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
