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A plan by a private jet firm to sell six seats on a flight to the US has flown into trouble.
David Burt, the Premier, said that the trip organised by Longtail Aviation to bring passengers back to Bermuda from the US and return to America had not yet ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A husband and wife yesterday thanked a stranger who picked up their supermarket bill in a random act of kindness.
Diane and Stacey Simpson said they were “incredibly grateful” to the woman they knew only as “Karen”, who paid their $130 shopping bill....
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Customers must cover their faces in supermarkets after new rules were enforced at a string of stores yesterday.
The Lindo’s Group of Companies announced that people shopping at its stores in Devonshire and Warwick, as well as at Harrington Hundreds,...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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A film-maker has appealed for help from the public to make a morale-boosting short film on how people had handled the stress of the Covid-19 crisis.
Milton Raposo said: “We’re so tight-knit, we all now know one person who has been affected. It’s just...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
Two helicopters flew above Bermuda yesterday as part of Britain’s preparation for future hurricanes.
The aircraft took off from RFA Argus, part of the Royal Navy’s Royal Fleet Auxiliary Merchant Navy arm and the Caribbean disaster relief ship, which ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Bermuda’s high schools have joined forces to make face shields for hospital staff.
Saltus Grammar School, Warwick Academy, Somersfield Academy, Bermuda High School and CedarBridge Academy have used their schools’ 3D printers to manufacture protective...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Protective mask manufacture has turned into a cottage industry for one woman and her sewing machine.
Kendra-Lee Pearman, an educational psychologist, learnt how to sew at the Berkeley Institute and is from a long line of seamstresses.
Now she has tur...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than 50 people linked to a care home were being tested for Covid-19 yesterday after the death of a senior who lived there.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said last night the test results were expected “within the next 24 to 48 hours”.
She w...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Health
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A decision to extend the Covid-19 shelter in place regulations could be announced today, the Premier signalled last night.
David Burt said that Cabinet discussions today could include an extension of the lockdown, due to end on Saturday.
He added tha...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who breached the Covid-19 curfew while wearing an electronic monitoring device has been jailed for a month.
Lawrence Smith, 22, from Paget, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Shelter in Place regulations.
Smith admitted unlawfully visiting...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes