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Separated parents who share custody of their children will be able to move them between their homes after an amendment to state-of-emergency rules.
Changes to the shelter-in- place order included a provision to allow parents who do not live together ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s war veterans are being used by an unscrupulous scammer, the Bermuda Legion has warned.
Carol Everson, a welfare case worker with the ex-services personnel charity, highlighted that a phone caller had used her name in an attempt to solici...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Covid-19 case at a seniors home this month did not mandate testing of all residents and staff, Bermuda’s Chief Medical Officer insisted last night.
Cheryl Peek-Ball said that a Covid-19 case had been confirmed at the Westmeath Residential and Nurs...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Health
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Efforts to safeguard families in emergency housing over the Covid-19 crisis are not good enough, a resident has claimed.
The woman, who lives in the Gulfstream housing complex in St David’s, said there was a cleaning service at the building — but tha...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A hurricane hindered efforts to return a native species of fern to Bermuda’s wild areas.
Efforts to reintroduce the Governor Laffan’s Fern, considered extinct in the wild, to various sites around the island had mixed results last year, after the isla...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A mixed-media artist from the Azores has become the first from overseas to be featured in an online gallery devoted to Bermudian art.
Lisa Howie, the owner of the Black Pony gallery, said Leonor Almeida Pereira’s abstract paintings explored “the ocea...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
An environmental group celebrated Earth Day yesterday with a tree-planting programme.
The Bermuda Climate Action Network said the reduction of travel and closure of factories in the fight against Covid-19 had resulted in an “environmental boon” with ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Post Office staff have started a reduced delivery service, the Government said today.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry for the Cabinet Office said that postal employees were delivering mail as “part of a limited, yet critical service”.
She added: “As...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Pupils will not be expected to learn from home tomorrow, the Commissioner of Education said.
Kalmar Richards said that April 24 was normally set aside for pupils in the Bermuda Agricultural Show.
She added in a letter to parents: “It is also recogn...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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Education
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Police and sniffer dogs yesterday continued the search for a missing senior today.
Teams of officers scoured sections of the Railway Trail in Paget as part of the hunt for Robert Douglas.
The 72-year-old was last seen in person near his home in My Lo...
DATE: Apr 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter