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A government employee who showed “exceptional commitment” to her work supporting cruise ship visits to the island won last month’s Public Service Excellence Award.
Stacey Evans, a transportation co-ordinator in the Ministry of Transport, was said to ...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A working relationship between gaming regulators in Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands is expected to be formalised in a memorandum of understanding.
Jean Major, the Bermuda Gaming Commission chief executive, said that the island’s MOUs also me...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Charles Jeffers II, CEO of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, has left the BTA after just over a year in the post, it was announced yesterday.
A statement from a BTA spokeswoman said that Tracy Berkeley, the body’s chief administration officer, has been ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Government has once again defended its controversial Travel Authorisation policy, insisting that the form "serves a vital role by protecting our community and by helping to prevent Covid-19 from being imported“.
But Vance Campbell, the Minister o...
DATE: Jun 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An American actor, model and entertainment reporter appointed to the Bermuda Tourism Authority by the Premier has quit — more than a year before his term was due to end.
There was no fanfare when Terrence Jenkins — also known as Terrence J — joined t...
DATE: Jun 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Government’s controversial Travel Authorisation policy has been condemned as “an exercise in annoying bureaucracy that creates anxiety” in a review of a cruise trip to Bermuda.
The review of the trip on board the Celebrity Summit liner from New...
DATE: Jun 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A cruise visitor called for Bermuda’s Travel Authorisation Form to be scrapped and replaced with a straight $40 fee after witnessing chaos caused by applications snags.
A Canadian resident who travelled on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas report...
DATE: May 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Direct flights to the Azores are scheduled to return next month, while service to Toronto slightly increases.
However, the British Airways service to London is set to be reduced for much of the month.
According to the June 2022 flight schedule, the w...
DATE: May 30, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Year-round daily flights from Bermuda to New York’s JFK airport will resume in November from American Airlines, the Bermuda Tourism Authority has announced.
The BTA said the restored flights, halted in March 2020 by the advent of the pandemic, would ...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A tour company has assured conspiracy theorists nervous about booking a cruise to the island next year not to worry — they’ll get their money back should the vessel disappear in the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Holiday Maker Travel made the tongue-in-c...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan