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A health business won the top prize in a Christmas window display competition — even though it does not have a store.
Wild Herbs and Plants of Bermuda, based in the East End but without a physical location, was loaned a window by the Bermuda Economic...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman who called emergency services to report a blaze that destroyed a house claimed a fire truck took 45 minutes to arrive.
Elizabeth Dore took issue with national security minister Wayne Caines’s claim that the vehicle reached the property in Uni...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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Visitors to vacation rental properties plunged by 3,000 in a nine-month period in 2019.
Mike Cranfield, of Cranfield’s Property Group, said the decline coincided with the introduction of a 4.5 per cent tax on vacation rental bookings through services...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Jan 05, 2020
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Other
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Two boys aged 14 and 15 were arrested on suspicion of theft of a motorcycle on New Year’s Eve.
Police said the 15-year-old was riding a motorcycle and the younger boy was his passenger on Front Street at 11.45pm.
Police stopped the pair, who were wea...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A prison officer was injured in an attack by an inmate at Westgate Prison on New Year’s Day, a government representative said last night.
A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security said that the officer was assaulted by the inmate while on du...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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Other
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Ewart Brown has launched a fresh legal action against the Attorney-General.
A writ filed in the Supreme Court on December 23 by Forensica Legal lists the former premier, Bermuda Healthcare Services and the Brown-Darrell Clinic as complainants and the...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Holiday scheduling was to blame for a banana shortage at some supermarkets, a representative for an wholesaler said yesterday.
Peter Tobin, the president and general manager of the consumer products division at Butterfield & Vallis, said that the fi...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Young people continue to encounter racism as they move into the workforce, according to the antiracism group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda.
Teens would benefit from taking part in Curb’s truth and reconciliation talks, vice-president Cordell R...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A “silent majority” backs the work of the racial justice charity Curb, according to the group’s vice-president.
Cordell Riley said Curb’s last round of truth and reconciliation community conversations ended in December with participants expressing “a...
DATE: Jan 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
