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Fears about meat for sale in Bermuda that was processed in factories whose workforces have been hit by Covid-19 have been quashed by health officials.
The outbreak of the disease has forced meatpacking factories in several US states to close, includi...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Colin Thompson
Schoolchildren who thanked essential workers and the Government for their work in the Covid-19 crisis through a video project did an “awesome job”, the woman who spearheaded the effort said yesterday.
Shoa Wolfe, a media teacher and the Senior 3 yea...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Covid-19 has caused massive unemployment among taxi drivers and the restaurant trade, industry figures said yesterday.
David Frost, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Owners Association, said almost 600 taxi drivers were off the road because of the pa...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Soldiers on the streets and the water to enforce the state of emergency regulations are backed up by a hard-working support team at Warwick Camp.
Royal Bermuda Regiment chefs and medics are working overtime to keep about 200 troops fed and fighting f...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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A fresh appeal to trace an elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease who has been missing for almost a month was made tonight.
Police said Robert Douglas, 72, was captured on a CCTV camera walking east on Angle Street in Hamilton, near its junction with N...
DATE: Apr 22, 2020
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A total of $7.7 million has been paid out to people thrown out of work by the Covid-19 crisis, the labour minister revealed last night.
Lovitta Foggo said that the Department of Workforce Development had been “flooded” with applications for the emer...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Some businesses thought to be eligible to reopen yesterday after Covid-19 regulations were relaxed were unable to do so because they still had to get government permission.
A spokeswoman for Hendy’s Laundromat on Union Street, Pembroke, said staff ha...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Staff at a Pembroke restaurant have turned its kitchen over to help elderly residents at a nursing home.
Rob Bruni, the manager of Huckleberry at the Rosedon Hotel, said staff had answered an urgent call for help after a string of Covid-19 cases amon...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The desperate family of a senior who went missing four weeks ago today are increasingly worried about his safety.
Mervyn Grant, the brother-in-law of Robert Douglas, 71, said: “We’re hanging in there as best we can.”
He explained: “In the early stage...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A Royal Bermuda Regiment firearms training exercise was the source of gunshots reported at the weekend, police said yesterday.
A police spokesman said officers were told two gunshots were heard near the Marley Beach area of Warwick on Saturday mornin...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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