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A Bermudian film-maker and a team of friends are training for a gruelling one-day ocean-to-ocean cycle across the Isthmus of Panama next month to help the fight against modern slavery.
Kim Carter said: “It’s like riding two dozen Billy Goat Hills, on...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is not a place of brass-plate businesses, a visiting international diplomat said.
David Gill, the German Consul General in New York, added: “Bermuda is real business.”
He said: “There’s business going on here. It’s not like one of these ot...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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A trailblazing Bermudian engineer for the Xerox Corporation, who pushed for the hiring of other black professionals, has died.
Lloyd Bean, an 80-year-old father of four, died on January 8 at home in Brighton, New York.
Mr Bean moved to the United Sta...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Airbnb hosts each made about $18,800 each last year, figures released by the vacation rental website have revealed.
The company announced that 23,700 people booked vacation rentals in Bermuda through the online service in 2018.
A spokesman added the ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
(Photographs by Blaire Simmons)
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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Influenza cases have jumped, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board has confirmed.
Michael Richmond, the Chief of Staff and acting chief executive at the BHB, said that the speed and virulence was a concern.
He added: “This has not been ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A magistrate arrested at the weekend after a car crash has been released on bail, police said last night.
It is understood that Khamisi Tokunbo and another man were taken in custody after a weekend accident on South Road in Paget. A police spokesman ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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A 43-year-old man denied a sex assault charge at Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
It is alleged the man sexually assaulted a woman in St George’s on July 5 last year.
The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was released on $2,000 bail and ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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Court
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New taxes could be in the pipeline for the 2019-20 Budget, the Minister of Finance said yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said in his pre-Budget report that possible taxes included one on homes where the main function was for rental to tourists or to empl...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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Politics
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A Dutch merchant vessel has turned towards Bermuda after a crewman began to suffer respiratory issues.
The MV Rolldock Sea contacted the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre minutes after 10pm last night to say it was steering towards the island becaus...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
