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A new-look website for the City of Hamilton will offer more options to access services online.
The City said that the site was “designed to be more user-friendly with improved navigation and functionality and in line with its corporate branding”.
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DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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Public-sector workers were told yesterday that a financial plan to help tackle the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will save jobs.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, outlined the problems faced by the Government in an open letter to ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2020
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A US residential treatment centre will not be disciplined by state regulators after the death by suicide of a Bermudian teenager, it was reported.
West Ridge Academy, in West Jordan, Utah, was investigated by the state’s Department of Human Services’...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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Relief will be available for ratepayers in the City of Hamilton to help them deal with the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Businesses and residents are to benefit from the programme, which the City said was set out on its website.
A press ...
DATE: Jun 21, 2020
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Almost 250 people helped to raise $14,000 for a support charity in a virtual race.
The You Go Girl event in aid of the Women’s Resource Centre attracted 249 entries, including two men, who were from Florida.
Christine De Silva, who is on the committe...
DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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An online consultation about race relations in Bermuda was relaunched by the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport today.
Lovitta Foggo said it was important to encourage discussion in order to bring about change.
She explained: “On June 7, I was p...
DATE: Jun 18, 2020
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A surge in demand at a support charity led to a burst of generosity to help people affected by the Covid-19 crisis, its executive director said yesterday.
Elaine Butterfield, of the Women’s Resource Centre, revealed that almost $300,000 was raised si...
DATE: Jun 17, 2020
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A panel of experts will hold an online forum for non-Bermudian residents affected by domestic abuse this weekend.
The Foreign Women Club of Bermuda and Under Konstruction, a support agency, said they wanted people from overseas to know that they were...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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Passenger flights to the island are expected to lift off at the start of next month, the transport minister said last night.
But Zane DeSilva emphasised that industry talks continued to finalise regulations needed to protect “Bermuda and her people f...
DATE: Jun 12, 2020
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Detectives could use a video link to interview a prominent lawyer in connection with the acquisition of weapons from the Royal Bermuda Regiment as well as the “suspected supply of drugs and inappropriate behaviour towards minors”, the Commissioner of...
DATE: Jun 11, 2020
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