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A fresh strategy for boosting the air service to the island should be in place by the end of the year, according to advisers who have spent this week surveying Bermuda’s market.
Experts from Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting have been hired for one...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
A tourist died yesterday after an incident during a jet ski tour.
The 62-year-old American woman was a passenger on the machine when she fell off and “became unresponsive”, police said.
Emergency crews were called to the incident in waters off Somers...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
Members of the public can now buy wheelie bins for their trash and recyclables as part of a pilot programme launched by the Ministry of Public Works.
The garbage bins have a capacity of 360 litres and cost $125. The 140-litre recycling bins cost $40...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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Organisers of Destination Dockyard will roll out the big guns for the season’s last instalment of the summer fixture of entertainment and shopping on Monday.
The line-up at the historic site will be hosted by Power Girl and include Hindsight, DJ Rust...
DATE: Aug 23, 2019
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Jonathan Bell
The number of people who sought help from a charity over abusive relationships has already surpassed the annual average, the agency’s leader said yesterday.
Laurie Shiell, the executive director at the Centre Against Abuse, explained that requests fo...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
The trial of a man charged with burglary and sexual assault began in Supreme Court yesterday.
The defendant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, denied allegations that he broke into a house in Devonshire on November 24 last year with the int...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A proposed walk-in medical clinic in Hamilton has been refused planning permission by the Development Applications Board.
However, Marico Thomas, chief executive officer of Bermuda Medical Specialties Group, said yesterday that the plans for the Heal...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A fisherman was left hungry and thirsty when he spent an unplanned night on the water after his boat broke down.
The Department of Marine and Ports Services said the man had tried for nearly 24 hours to row ashore before he was rescued.
A report of t...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
Commuters have benefited from a 40 per cent boost in the number of buses on the roads, the transport minister said yesterday.
Zane DeSilva explained that an improved maintenance schedule had increased the average number of in-service buses from 50 t...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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Air-conditioned buses should be a must on longer public routes, a senior user of the service said yesterday.
Elizabeth Adams, 71, said she was at her “wits end” over the failure to use AC-equipped buses on long runs.
She said that the buses in use ...
DATE: Aug 22, 2019
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