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Emergency restrictions imposed for the Covid-19 crisis are appropriate in the circumstances, the Human Rights Commission said yesterday.
An HRC statement said that the Constitution allowed the Governor, after consultation with the Premier, to proclai...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A group of art lovers want to use kites to send a special message of appreciation to people on the front line of the war against Covid-19.
Jennifer Lang, a teacher at the Kaleidoscope Arts Foundation and other staff at the Devonshire art school said ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
A personal trainer who runs fitness classes for seniors has moved her workouts online in the wake of Covid-19 state-of-emergency, shelter-in-place regulations.
Frances Smith, the director of Actively Aging has started to record weekly videos of her c...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Health
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Bermuda could suffer as many as 700 Covid-19 deaths it was warned last night as the country recorded its third fatality from the disease.
David Burt, the Premier, revealed the grim projection after he announced an 80-year-old man had died in hospital...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A healthcare grant awards scheme has been set up in memory of a top eye surgeon who died last year, aged 64.
The Bermuda International Institute of Ophthalmology created the scholarship in honour of the late Leonard Teye-Botchway.
The BIIO fund was d...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A developer has been ordered to pay legal costs after he abandoned an effort to fight the validity of a prosecution over a failed hotel project.
Michael MacLean had asked for a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecution’s 2018 decision to ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Most women due to give birth in hospital will still be able to have their partners at their side when they are in labour despite the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night that — as long as fathers or ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A decision to end remote learning for public school pupils was made by the Government, not teachers, their union said yesterday.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that “no individual teacher or school made the decision to suspend re...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Education
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Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited (BELCO) today issued a reminder to the public about safe kite flying during the Good Friday holiday.
As we spend this Good Friday holiday flying our kites while we are sheltering in place and following the regu...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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Press Release
Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) today announces that all 30 rooms of the Ace Barber Unit in the Acute Care Wing of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have been converted to negative pressure rooms. This upgrade dramatically decreases the possibility of ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Press Release