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An annual cancer fundraising event will take place in virtual form this evening.
The 2020 Relay for Life, which supports the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, will start at 6pm “island wide” with participants to register and join in from their homes,...
DATE: May 15, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Legislation to allow people to withdraw up to $12,000 from their private pension plans was approved by the Senate yesterday.
Vance Campbell, a government senator and the junior public works minister, said the legislation was intended to help people w...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A cruise ship passenger caught with $240,000 worth of drugs on a Bermuda-bound vessel was jailed for more than two years yesterday.
Margil Mireles, 32, was sentenced to 27 months in the Supreme Court for his involvement in a plot to bring cannabis, l...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A war veteran and widow who was inspired by her triumph over illness to do voluntary work abroad has died. Deirdre Chapin was 95.
David Thompson, the president of Bermuda Overseas Missions, where she was a volunteer, said that Ms Chapin’s last trip w...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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All options will be on the table as Bermuda starts to look at ways to kick-start the battered economy, the finance minister revealed last night.
Curtis Dickinson said the Economic Advisory Committee, which he will head alongside ten other people from...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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Families stuck at home during Covid-19 restrictions can still swim with the dolphins at tourist attractions in Bermuda and Hawaii on a virtual tour.
Last week Dolphin Quest started virtual encounters, which offer visits to its three locations over vi...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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The impact of Covid-19 has been harder on the black population than others, the health minister revealed yesterday.
Kim Wilson said that 88 per cent, or seven, of the eight deaths linked to the coronavirus were black people.
She added: “As we have se...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Rent deferrals have been offered for a second month to businesses in Dockyard because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cancellation of more than 70 cruise ships to Bermuda this year.
The West End Development Corporation said it had give...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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No more care home cases of Covid-19 have been found after testing across the sector was completed at the weekend, the Ministry of Health said last night.
A spokeswoman added that the results for all 21 homes had now come back and the number of cases ...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Two men charged in connection with a daylight shooting last week appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Jukai Burgess, 20, and Grayson Swan, 19, were charged with robbery, use of a firearm after committing an indictable offence and handling a fire...
DATE: May 14, 2020
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Court
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