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The island’s weather eye will be shut on Thursday for routime maintenance, it was announced today.
The Bermuda Airport Authority said the new $2 million radar system, commissioned last July and hit with teething troubles in its first few months, will...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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News Staff
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, issued a statement this afternoon noting that the World Health Organisation announced over the weekend that the global number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has surpassed 100,000.
The illness is caused by the coro...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda will extra supplies of hand santitiser to help the fight against a new potential killer strain of coronavirus by next week, the Premier promised yesterday.
David Burt said: “We recognise this could be an existential threat to our tourism indu...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police are looking into the sudden death of a man at a Sandys home yesterday afternoon.
A police spokesman said the body was found at around 2pm.
He added: “An on-call doctor visited the scene and pronounced the man dead at around 3.20pm.
“No furthe...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Primary schoolchildren took to the streets this week to remind motorists about “small walkers” as part of a road safety campaign.
The pupils from Dalton E Tucker Primary School may also hear their call for improved road safety on the radio as they ar...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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Immigration legislation will be amended to solve the problems of mixed-status families and settle the status of children born overseas to Bermudian parents, the national security minister said yesterday.
Wayne Caines insisted there would be “no givea...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Hospitals Board will complete its annual reports up to 2019 by the end of this year, health minister Kim Wilson told MPs yesterday.
Ms Wilson announced BHB’s financial statements for 2015 and 2016 had unqualified audits as she tabled the ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Fundraisers are gearing up for a major charity walk tomorrow.
Lindo’s Group of Companies will host the Lindo’s to Lindo’s Walk and Run, along Middle and South Roads between their stores in Warwick and Devonshire.
The event will raise cash for and pub...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A 27-year-old man will spend ten years behind bars for sexual offences against a ten-year-old schoolgirl.
William Smith was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge, attempted unlawful carnal knowledge and two counts of sexual exploitation of a you...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Victories in the battle for equality paved the way for a world where young women feel less affected by discrimination, the island’s EU representative said yesterday.
However, Renée Webb added that campaigns like tomorrow’s International Women’s Day w...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
