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Organisers of the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon Derby and Sinclair Packwood Memorial cycle race are watching the progress of the Covid-19 outbreak very closely ahead of one of the biggest holidays of the year.
Bermuda Day, scheduled for May 29, also invo...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
Some cleaning companies have cut services in a bid to protect staff and customers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tarah Woolgar, owner of Maid in Bermuda, said the company had suspended services to people in quarantine and its commercial contracts for th...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A financial safety net for people left out of work due to Covid-19 was today backed by a charity for families.
Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the unemployment scheme announced by Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, w...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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A private school has cancelled exams in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bermuda High School said that international examination bodies had pulled the plug on Cambridge and Pearson/Edexcel IGCSE and GCSE examinations worldwide have also been cancel...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Bermuda’s athletes have reflected on the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer because of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The Games, which were scheduled to start on July 24, will now be held “no later than summer 2021”, the Internatio...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Penalties could be imposed on employers who do not allow staff to work from home over the Covid-19 crisis, the Premier warned tonight.
David Burt said that he had asked Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, to look at changes to public health law...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Twenty ventilators are available at the island’s general hospital and eight more are on their way, the Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night.
A BHB spokeswoman added there was also a plan to look after critical patients outside King Edward VII Memo...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The coronavirus pandemic will not stop The Royal Gazette bringing the public the latest news on the crisis.
However, the pandemic has pushed the newspaper closer to an “online first” future.
We will follow the advice of the Government and medical pro...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian in strict quarantine in China said yesterday that everyone at home had to play their part to limit the spread of Covid-19.
Harrison Burke said: “The longer it takes for people to get their act together and take this seriously, the longer...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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An emergency transport service to get hospital staff to work is to be introduced.
The move came after emergency service workers who travel to work by public transport were forced to walk or find alternative ways to get to their jobs after services we...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell