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A visiting couple are recovering in hospital after being injured in a road accident yesterday.
The 58-year-old man and 56-year-old woman were on a rental motorcycle when they crashed into a wooden railing near Shark Hole hill, on Harrington Sound Roa...
DATE: May 19, 2017
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News Staff
Harrington Sound Primary School’s Parent Teacher Association has called an urgent meeting to tackle the ongoing problem of bird mites.
Children and teachers have been bitten and dead birds were found in the roof during an initial clean-up attempt.
St...
DATE: May 19, 2017
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Education
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Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Economic Development, outlined plans this morning in Parliament for broadcasting and audiovisual media.
Dr Gibbons said he was in the process of evaluating policy options for the creation of “a new regulatory framework ...
DATE: May 19, 2017
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Fourteen of Bermuda’s businesses will be serving crowds of thousands in the America’s Cup Village from next Friday, when the gates open to the sailing showpiece.
Ten food and beverage vendors and four workforce caterers were selected in a thorough RF...
DATE: May 19, 2017
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Event
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Today Show live from Bermuda (Photographs by Akil Simmons)
DATE: May 18, 2017
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Tomasina Fountain, a trusted political reporter in Bermuda and overseas, who covered breakthrough events in local affairs, has died at the age of 88.
A veteran of British, Panamanian and Bahamian newspapers, “Tommie”, as she was fondly known, joined ...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Safeguarding Bermuda’s vulnerable is the aim behind stringent measures for persons under care proposed by shadow health minister Kim Wilson.
Service providers and administrators would be tasked with reporting “all allegations of abuse to the minister...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former policeman who was awarded damages after suffering chronic kidney problems due to toxic mould at Somerset Police Station has donated $5,000 to the dialysis unit in Bermuda.
Emmerson Donald, who is currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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Celebrated local chef Frederick Ming has expressed disappointment in being turned down for a vendor’s stall at the America’s Cup.
However, a spokeswoman for the ACBDA said that Mr Ming had failed to follow the “request for proposal” process in his ap...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Chickenpox cases remain above normal levels for the time of year.
There have been 18 cases reported to the island’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit by doctors’ offices and labs in 2017.
A Ministry of Health spokeswoman said: “This is notably hig...
DATE: May 18, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
