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Work to install a new lifeguard tower at John Smith’s Bay has started.
The tower will be constructed on a concrete pad at the Smith’s beach.
The tower will be built so it can be removed and stored inside over the off-season, which runs from November ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Florida-bound British Airways flight was forced to make an emergency diversion to Bermuda yesterday because of smoke in the cabin.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Services said they received a call about the diversion at around 4pm.
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DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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A middle school teacher said that she hoped experience she gained at a robotics event will boost her pupils’ interest in high-tech education.
Tamara Adderley, a M1 and functional academics teacher at Dellwood Middle School, in Pembroke, took part in ...
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The island’s first privacy watchdog said he planned to visit community groups to find out how the collection of personal information affected people.
Alexander White will also canvass businesses as he considers what should be included in guidelines f...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A Bill to grant access to information collected by the Department of Statistics was questioned by an Opposition senator this week. Nick Kempe said that he was unclear on the purpose of the Statistics Amendment Act.
The One Bermuda Alliance senator s...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Bermuda recorded its highest tourism numbers last year, but visitor air arrivals dropped by 6 per cent.
The increase to more than 808,240 tourists was fuelled by a record 535,561 cruise ship passengers, up 51,222 on the previous year, or 10.6 per cen...
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A robot submarine is to be deployed in a bid to study microscopic organisms in the island’s underwater caves.
Researchers at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences were awarded a Trident remote operated vehicle by Conservation X Labs, a US-based env...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A five-year-long lag in audited accounts for Bermuda’s biggest quango is “totally unacceptable”, an independent senator claimed this week. James Jardine said that audited accounts had not been prepared and issued for the Bermuda Hospitals Board since...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Ministry of Public Works, delivered a ministerial statement about the Government’s partnership with Belco on co-ordinated road trenching.
• To read Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch’s ministerial statement in full, cl...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Politics
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News Staff
National security minister Wayne Caines updated MPs with a ministerial statement about Bermuda’s first coastguard unit, which was launched in the West End earlier this month.
• To read Wayne Caines’s ministerial statement in full, click on the PDF un...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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News Staff