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A great white shark is thought to have been spotted about 12 miles off the southwestern coast of Bermuda.
A group of friends were fishing at sea mount Challenger Banks last Thursday when they saw a large shark circling their boat. Michiko Campbell, ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The former Minister of National Security described the fallout from the Blu Bar & Grill Restaurant controversy as one of the most difficult times of his life.
Wayne Caines and tourism minister Zane DeSilva were both forced to resign after they were c...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda is to grasp the chance to attract remote workers to the island with the launch of a special one-year residential certificate.
The Government has also laid out a welcome mat for non-Bermudian students who, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic closin...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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A pharmacy owner claimed her company had been “wrongly maligned” after a staff member received a seemingly false positive result from a Covid-19 test.
Tamara Richardson also questioned yesterday how the People’s Pharmacy employee was required to take...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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The mother of a teenager who took her own life at an American treatment centre said she had “no real answers” about what happened to her daughter eight months after she died.
Johnita Simons explained that she contacted agencies in Bermuda as well as ...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The island’s casino gambling watchdog will take over responsibility for all types of betting if legislation tabled in the House of Assembly is passed.
David Burt, the Premier, said the Gaming (Transfer of Functions) Act 2020 would move supervision of...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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The Minister of Public Works asked residents to show their support for his “adopted daughter” who MPs heard is on a “zero dollar” contract to help in the battle against Covid-19.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told the House of Assembly on Friday tha...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Sick and disabled people will be able to vote in elections from their home, under amendments approved on Friday night.
The Parliamentary Election Amendment Bill also allows blind and visually impaired people to vote through a tactile voting device, i...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A teenager was remembered on what would have been her 18th birthday yesterday by a fundraising effort to help prevent young suicide.
Johnita Simons launched the online campaign as part of her daughter Kirsta’s “legacy”.
She wrote: “As a mother of a c...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A war of words broke out between MPs over a police probe into a dairy container that carried drugs.
Derrick Burgess, the Deputy Speaker and a Progressive Labour Party member, claimed on Friday that white privilege stopped Michael Dunkley, a One Bermu...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter