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An entertainer and activist at the centre of a racism row was yesterday dropped as a performer by the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club in the wake of online posts where he called the people in charge of immigration “cockroaches”.
Tony Brannon said he h...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
MPs yesterday paid tribute to late trade unionist Glen Simmons as a warrior for social justice.
Jason Hayward, a former president of the Bermuda Public Service Union, said Mr Simmons was always on the front line when issues of social justice were on ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A schoolboys’ video designed to highlight the hurt adults can inflict on children has been a smash hit.
Members of the Victor Scott Hype Kings, a group of primary pupils involved in the larger Hype Kings development programme, said that they had been...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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A pair of half-siblings accused of the 2006 murder of a man were found guilty by a unanimous jury verdict yesterday.
Katrina Burgess, 49, and Cleveland Rogers, 52 had denied the premeditated murder of Marcus Gibbings, who was found dead in a Devonshi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre will continue its restricted winter opening hours while hospital staff prepare for a potential outbreak of Covid-19 in Bermuda.
The clinic in St David’s had already been forced to continue its winter service for long...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Quarantine centres are under consideration as the country prepares itself for a worst-case scenario over the potential killer Covid-19 virus, it was revealed yesterday.
Cheryl Peek-Ball, the Chief Medical Officer, said there were “conceivable situati...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Health
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Young sailors from Bermuda and abroad swapped ships in the East End yesterday.
David Goodwin, the chairman of the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, said that 46 high school pupils from Germany and youngsters from the Spirit of Bermuda had taken four-hour sa...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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An Opposition MP claimed “something don’t smell right” after he asked a Cabinet minister about the departure of the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s former chief executive.
Michael Dunkley pressed Zane DeSilva, the Minister of Tourism and Transport, on th...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Berkeley students have virtual success while attending an overseas virtual business trade show promoting their business Leisure in The Triangle (LiTT)
Six Berkeley institute pupils enrolled in the Virtual Enterprise International Program brought hom...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Education
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Press Release
Premier David Burt, with his wife Kristin, members of the Cabinet and Parliamentary colleagues attended the Opening Session of the 134th Session of the Bermuda Annual Conference at St. Paul AME Church earlier today.
The Conference is hosted by the M...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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Press Release