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Bermudians stranded in Canada are expected to return to Bermuda today.
Mikaela Kawaley-Lathan, one of a group of Bermudian students marooned in Toronto after a WestJet flight home from Toronto was cancelled on Sunday, said a new flight was scheduled ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A judicial review ruling that police acted unlawfully in a doctor’s arrest and search of his house has been upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Mahesh Reddy’s 2017 Supreme Court victory against police after an early morning arrest was supported in a judgm...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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One of Bermuda’s top fashion designers has died suddenly.
Dean Williams was 55.
René Hill, a clothes designer and former reporter at The Royal Gazette who worked with Mr Williams from 2014 to 2016, said she had learnt a lot from him.
She said his dea...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Almost 2,000 hotel staff have been laid off as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday.
Stephen Todd, the BHA and Hotel Employers of Bermuda chief executive officer, said: “The members of the Bermuda Hotel Asso...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Colin Thompson
A Bermudian Olympian said yesterday it was inevitable that the Olympic Games would be postponed after Australia and Canada said they would not participate in Tokyo this summer.
Tyrone Smith, a long jumper and three-times competitor at the Olympics, s...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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The historic Newport Bermuda Race is to be cancelled for the first time in 80 years, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club said yesterday.
Organisers added that the race — axed because of the Covid-19 pandemic — was last abandoned in 1940 under the gathering ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Despite COVID-19 uncertainty, the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) is reminding local entrepreneurs the deadline for applications to its Experience Investment Programme closes a week today, Tuesday, March 31.
The current intake aims to recruit the be...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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The United States Consulate General has called on American residents to step forward if they want to leave the island.
A consulate spokesman said: “The Government of Bermuda confirmed six cases of Covid-19 in Bermuda as of March 23.
“All US citizens ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Sanitisation stations have been set up at Westgate jail to help in the battle against Covid-19, the head of the Prison Officers Association said.
Timothy Seon added that the Government had committed to the maintenance of items that will help inmates ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts, the Bermuda Piano Festival and the Bermuda School of Music are pleased to announce that the Bermuda Festival will now be presenting the Bermuda Piano Festival.
The Piano Festival was launched in 2017 by...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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