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Soldiers on the streets and the water to enforce the state of emergency regulations are backed up by a hard-working support team at Warwick Camp.
Royal Bermuda Regiment chefs and medics are working overtime to keep about 200 troops fed and fighting f...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Public health officials tackled problems with Covid-19 testing materials by making their own, it was revealed yesterday.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that staff at Government laboratories produced a viral transport medium — a way to ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A nurse at Bermuda’s largest residential home for seniors tested positive for Covid-19 almost two weeks ago but a plea for everyone else at the facility to be immediately screened for the coronavirus was not acted on.
Barbara Lee, the chairwoman of t...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Health
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A fresh appeal to trace an elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease who has been missing for almost a month was made tonight.
Police said Robert Douglas, 72, was captured on a CCTV camera walking east on Angle Street in Hamilton, near its junction with N...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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News Staff
Advanced Placement exams will go ahead in an abridged, online form, despite the cancellation of other international exams.
Jon Beard, the Deputy Head of School at Saltus, said today the AP exams organised by the US College Board and undertaken by stu...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The second annual Bermuda Championship will embrace a new policy to reduce waste when it returns this October.
Organisers of the international golf event announced today, in recognition of Earth Day, that it would adopt the PGA Tour’s reusable cup po...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Expertise and supplies from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences are helping the island to battle Covid-19.
Rachel Parsons Biggs, a BIOS microbiologist, was seconded to Helix Bermuda, the forensics and clinical testing company where testing for th...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Assistant Commissioner of Police Martin Weekes would like to remind the public of some of the requirements of the Shelter at Home Regulations which as you would be aware, have been extended for a second 14 days, to May 2nd 2020.
Mr. Weekes stated, “I...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
A total of $7.7 million has been paid out to people thrown out of work by the Covid-19 crisis, the labour minister revealed last night.
Lovitta Foggo said that the Department of Workforce Development had been “flooded” with applications for the emer...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Other
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Some businesses thought to be eligible to reopen yesterday after Covid-19 regulations were relaxed were unable to do so because they still had to get government permission.
A spokeswoman for Hendy’s Laundromat on Union Street, Pembroke, said staff ha...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes