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The new municipalities minister vowed yesterday to press on with a plan to axe the corporations of Hamilton and St George.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch admitted there was opposition to the proposal to replace the local authorities with unelected qu...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A weekend free meals programme started by a supermarket operator to help people left struggling by the Covid-19 crisis is to be extended from today.
Supermart, which has branches in Hamilton and St George, said it planned to cook about 600 meals bet...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A police sergeant has been named volunteer of the year for a local youth charity.
Cerepha Bridgeman, who supervises the parish officers for the eastern and western parishes, collected the award from the Mirror’s Programme.
Sergeant Bridgeman has volu...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda residents flying to England will be exempt from the requirement to self-isolate for 14 days after arrival.
The exemption, which was announced today and applies to all 14 British Overseas Territories, will take effect from July 10.
As long as ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tropical Depression 5 is no longer a threat to the island, the Bermuda Weather Service said today.
The storm brought thunderstorms, rain and winds of up to 34mph as it passed Bermuda shortly after midnight.
At 6am today, it was about 70 miles north o...
DATE: Jul 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Restaurants and bars moved into the “new normal” this week, but it will not be until later that the impact of a relaxation of Covid-19 rules can be assessed.
Chris Garland, the general manager of Harbourside Holdings, which owns Flanagan’s Irish Pub ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight for more than three months yesterday.
Karla Aitken collected her daughter, Ashley, 23, who had at last managed to return from college in Denmark — but the joy of homecoming was marred by sadness ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teenager denied theft and trespassing charges yesterday.
Aurelien Corona-Valett, 18, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the theft of Adderall prescription pills and three bottles of alcohol after he trespassed at a Pembroke home.
He also p...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Legislation to give businesses more time before they have to make laid-off staff redundant will be debated in the House of Assembly today.
The Employment Amendment Act 2020 will maintain the requirement for employees laid off for more than four month...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of a blackmail demand for $75,000 from a father and daughter.
Lu Zhao, 35, was charged with making an “unwarranted demand with menaces” to the man between May 19 and June 12.
She was also charg...
DATE: Jul 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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