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A company with a loan scheme to cover solar energy installation has accused the island’s electricity and telecoms watchdog of blocking the innovation.
Greenlight Energy said its financing arrangement would allow people unable to afford the upfront co...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
Five more people have been tested for a potential killer strain of coronavirus, the Ministry of Health revealed yesterday.
A ministry spokeswoman added that 22 people were “self-monitoring with public health supervision” as a precaution against Covid...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
2020 Bermuda Biennial (Photographs by Akil Simmons)
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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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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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
