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The island’s first information privacy legislation has been passed in the Senate, but is likely to be delayed two years to allow organisations to prepare.
However, a privacy commissioner will soon be enacted, national security minister Jeff Baron tol...
DATE: Jul 25, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
Blood donors with the type O negative are being urged to come forward before the Cup Match holiday.
An appeal was issued by the Bermuda Hospitals Board to ensure supplies are available over the long weekend.
Eyitayo Fakunle, a consultant haematolo...
DATE: Jul 25, 2016
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board has imposed a smoking ban on the grounds of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre.
Starting on Monday, August 1, it will be an offence to smoke anywhere on these properties.
“The BHB i...
DATE: Jul 24, 2016
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Concerns of asbestos contamination have risen in the aftermath of a conflagration in Hamilton that burnt down one of the city’s oldest buildings.
Sources told The Royal Gazette that firefighters had flagged up the issue, given the building’s age, and...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre has thrown its support behind Raw Elements sunscreen which is also the official sunscreen for the 35th America’s Cup.
The organic, reef-safe product was last year sourced and brought to the island by Bermudian-bas...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Promoters of the Cup Match Summer Splash annual concerts are all geared up for the opening night today in Par-la-Ville Car Park.
The events have quickly developed into the largest concerts of the year and a holiday staple, attracting more than 7,000 ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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The predawn fire on Thursday that gutted businesses on a section of Front Street also deprived Hamilton of a vintage historic building.
The city lost one of two Georgian era buildings, which was one of Front Street’s first three-storey edifices cover...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
This joint obituary, published in The Economist today, celebrates how both Johnny Barnes and Datta Phuge, an Indian known as “the Gold Man of Pune”, grew to be widely loved after initially being taken for eccentric “madmen”.
In the city of Pune in M...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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Bermuda did what it does best — pulling together yesterday in face of adversity following the fire that all but destroyed one building and damaged several others.
Messages of support poured out on social media, fundraising initiatives sprang into act...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two Cabinet ministers appear at odds over whether the six-figure salaries earned by hospital executives should be made public.
Home affairs minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin told The Royal Gazette she stood by a statement she made as health minister i...
DATE: Jul 23, 2016
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