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Dozens of homeless people in an emergency shelter at a secondary school were out on the streets yesterday after they were ordered to leave during daytime hours.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said last night that the temporary shelt...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Couriers firms have kept up the flow of essential items during the shelter-in-place measures imposed to combat the pandemic.
Kevin Smith, the managing director at International Bonded Couriers and ZipX, said the company was still on the job despite b...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A list of numbers including WhatsApp contact details was released yesterday so people can get help with applications for the Government’s unemployment benefits scheme.
Lovitta Foggo, the labour minister, said: “We want this process to be as seamless ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The island’s economy will be left in tatters by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Premier warned last night.
David Burt said: “The fact is that the recession that is coming may not be like anything we have seen before. That is a fact.”
He adde...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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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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CATEGORY:
Other
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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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CATEGORY:
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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CATEGORY:
Other
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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