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Teachers voted yesterday to take a 10 per cent salary cut for a year as part of the fightback from the economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers and associated staff unanimously backed the move at a special gen...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A charity set up to protect Bermuda’s bluebirds has appealed to the public to help them save the species.
Stuart Smith, of the Bermuda Bluebird Society, said the group hoped to collect information about eastern bluebird nests island-wide so they coul...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman whose teacher groomed her for sex when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl said yesterday she was “over the moon” that her public campaign to criminalise such behaviour had persuaded the Government to change the law.
Christine DaCosta was speaki...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Bermuda will be the new stage for an international youth golf tournament next year, the tourism minister announced yesterday.
Zane DeSilva said the Bermuda Junior Championship would be held as a part of a four-year deal agreed between the Bermuda Tou...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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An Opposition senator said that he would have recommended that legislators’ pay was cut by up to a half in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dwayne Robinson asked why a salary reduction for back bench MPs and members of the Upper House was set at 12...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A repeat prowler caught inside a woman’s apartment who claimed he was looking for a lost golf ball was remanded in custody today.
Chet Wilmot, 58, pleaded guilty to entering a home on Belmont Road, Warwick, without lawful excuse on Saturday.
Magistra...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Senators approved amendments aimed at giving the Government more flexibility to fight future pandemics.
The Public Health Amendment Act 2020 gives the Minister of Health the power to create regulations in response to dangerous communicable diseases w...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
2020 Ag Show (Photograph by Akil Simmons)
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The Bermuda Employers’ Council has backed the new labour minister’s plans to include employers and workers in discussions to kick-start the economy.
Keith Jensen, the president of the BEC, said: “This is the foundation of the tripartite system for co...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Power firm Belco has apologised after soot from its plant landed on nearby homes.
A Belco spokesman said: “We would like to sincerely apologise for this incident and undertake to quickly do everything we can to mitigate the impact to the surrounding ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
