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Firefighters yesterday battled a third vehicle fire in two days – two of them in the same St George’s neighbourhood.
Crews responded to reports of a car explosion on Pain Lane, St George’s just before 4.30am.
Residents in a nearby apartment were at ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Two children’s advocates have condemned a suspended sentence handed down in the Supreme Court to a man who admitted accessing thousands of items of child pornography.
Wong Li Shan, 43, was spared prison last week with a ten-month suspended sentence a...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The US Congress last week hailed the 150th anniversary of a former Bermuda barber who became the first black person to win a seat in the US House of Representatives.
Joseph Rainey – who ran a barber shop in St George’s – became a member of the US Hou...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Schoolchildren made up packages of food and gifts to help others in the run-up to Christmas.
Saltus Grammar School pupils created the gift packages, which were donated to charities.
A spokeswoman explained: “Each student contributed one non-perishabl...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A new strain of the coronavirus linked to increases in Covid-19 has appeared in Britain.
But Carika Weldon, a Bermudian genetics researcher on the front line of the island’s fight against Covid-19, said it was unlikely to be linked with the recent su...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Shipping and courier companies have been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic at their traditional busiest time of the year.
Customs officials yesterday asked the public to be patient as they processed “record numbers” of parcels.
Courier company operations ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A man involved in a head-on collision was fined $1,000 yesterday after he admitted drink driving.
Curtis Lee, 57, pleaded guilty to the charge in Magistrates’ Court.
The court heard that police were called to a two-vehicle collision at the junction o...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Supporters of ousted US President Donald Trump plan a ’victory’ cruise to Bermuda, despite last month’s loss to challenger Joe Biden, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The organiser of the four-day trip runs a website called The Patriot Voice.
The trip ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The WeHealth Bermuda app designed to help coronavirus tracing will not undermine civil liberties, the Privacy Commissioner has promised.
Alexander White said: “Bermudians can feel confident in WeHealth Bermuda as an example of trust being earned.
“M...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The homes of two police officers have been searched in a probe into the circulation of a document that detailed aspects of Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley’s private life, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
It is understood that the searches wer...
DATE: Dec 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
