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Staff walked off the job and blocked entry to the island’s biggest hardware store yesterday in a protest over cuts to their health insurance.
Employees shut the gates at Gorham’s on St John’s Road, Pembroke, at 11.45am and told customers that the sto...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Thousands of people including Hollywood heavyweights have shown their support for the island’s first Pride celebration.
Tony Brannon, a co-creator of the Bermuda Pride Supporters Facebook group, said that Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones had ...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An agreement for a new hospice has been signed between Bermuda Hospitals Board and Friends of Hospice.
The memorandum of understanding allows the charity to proceed with building a hospice next to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, on Berry Hill Road...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A plan to encourage more superyacht visits to the island could result in extra jobs for Bermudians, the Minister of Tourism and Transport said yesterday.
Zane DeSilva said legislative changes proposed by the Government would boost the country’s inter...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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A St George’s jewellers was burgled yesterday — the third time the premises have been hit in three months.
Police said that two men broke in to the Vera P. Card store on Water Street, at about 3.45am and stole jewellery.
The burglary is the latest in...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The family of a man shot dead in his own home by a police officer paid tribute to him at a church conference in Bermuda.
Allison and Bertrum Jean, from St Lucia, spoke about the loss of their son, Botham, who was shot by an off-duty female officer in...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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The Government’s refusal to release a financial report into a failed sports centre that cost taxpayers millions of dollars could end up in court.
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez told the Department of Public Lands and Buildings to disclo...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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A $2 million plus weather radar system will be operation next week, the transport minister told MPs this morning.
Zane DeSilva said the doppler radar system, on Cooper’s Island, had been completed on time and under budget.
Mr DeSilva said a new syste...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Bermuda Public Services Union has become the sole bargaining body for three more organisations.
Jason Hayward, the president of the BPSU, said the Bermuda Airport Authority, the Pension Commission and Teen Services/Teen Haven would now come under...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Police have launched a hunt for a teenage boy last seen on Wednesday.
Police said Brittonie Taylor, 15, was last seen around 8.10am in the Bakery Lane area of Pembroke.
A spokesman said he is dark complexioned, 5”6’ tall, of slim build, about 130 pou...
DATE: Jul 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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