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A new almanac designed to highlight when island food is at its best will be produced for next year’s Restaurant Weeks, the Bermuda Tourism Authority has said.
Glenn Jones, chief experiences development officer with the BTA, said Restaurant Weeks will...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Mothers of disabled children are to get a Christmas treat this weekend.
The charity, A New Life, has joined up with the Brio Studio hair and beauty salon in Devonshire to honour 30 mothers with “a day of beauty and pampering”.
LaKiesha Wolffe, head o...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
An antiracism campaign group has thrown its support behind the Government’s plan to carry out race relations research.
Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said the online survey could help the island address “the ongoing inequity and intergeneration...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Police asked for help today to find a man wanted in connection with an ongoing investigation.
Chet Wilmot is described as 5ft 6in to 5ft 8in and of medium build with light brown skin. He weighs about 160 pounds and has salt and pepper hair in a low c...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Bermuda has to do more to improve accessibility for disabled people, the health minister has said.
Kim Wilson said technology had made improvements to the lives of disabled people, but accessibility remained a problem.
She said: “Over the years, adva...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Business Development Agency failed to complete a review of its decision to refuse to release documents about an overseas company that wanted to set up shop on the island inside the legislated time limit.
But Gitanjali Gutierrez, the Info...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Legislation to require non-Bermudians be enrolled in a pension scheme was approved in the Senate on Wednesday.
The National Pension Scheme (Operational Pensions) Amendment Act will also allow seniors to withdraw up to 25 per cent of their pension sav...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The assistant director of the Department of Child and Family Services appeared in Magistrates’ Court today charged with assault and mistreatment of a child.
Kennette Robinson, 51, pleaded not guilty to the alleged offences, said in court to have happ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Court
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A leading light in the foundation of the Progressive Labour Party has died.
Edith Richardson, 97, was the widow of Hugh Richardson, a former President of the Senate and the first chairman of the PLP.
The Richardson’s home on Serpentine Road in Pembro...
DATE: Dec 06, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
An artist who admitted drawing on a trash can in Hamilton was shown mercy in Magistrates’ Court yesterday after the city government gave him a job on its community art project.
Dwayne Caines, chief operating officer of the Corporation of Hamilton, t...
DATE: Dec 05, 2019
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