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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...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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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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CATEGORY:
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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AUTHOR:
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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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Success. Travel. Sex. Meditation. National Dress.
Five dynamic, diverse visual “chit-chat” presentations on these topics are on offer for your delight at Bermuda PechaKucha Night # 29 at Blue Waters Anglers’s Club at 7 p.m. on Thursday 20 - 02 - 2...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Press Release
An effort to raise the profile of Bermuda Restaurant Weeks by introducing food experiences beyond the walls of a restaurant has won favour with restaurateurs, according to an industry survey.
Two events—a fragrance and food pairing picnic and a chur...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Press Release
Patients 1st would like to thank all of those who participated in the “Talk in The Park” last week. The response has been overwhelming with almost 12,000 signatures voting NO to the Unified/Single Payer Health Financing system and YES to Universal He...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Press Release
Heritage Month will have the theme “We are Bermudian” to help the Government promote the island’s cultural identity.
Cultural affairs minister Lovitta Foggo urged people to reflect on their commonalities throughout the month of May.
She told the Hous...
DATE: Feb 14, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
News Staff