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Members of a rugby club scrummed down to raise more than $4,000 to help staff laid off from a bar and restaurant over the coronavirus crisis.
Desmond Nash, the president of Renegades RFC, said: “As a result of the business lockdown in Bermuda during ...
DATE: Jun 10, 2020
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Fresh life will be breathed into a Front Street fixture when a home furnishings and art shop opens its doors this week.
The former Bluck’s of Bermuda has become a Habitat for Humanity ReStore, which will sell new or slightly used items to help suppor...
DATE: Jun 09, 2020
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Teenagers said yesterday that it was important to break down barriers and unite in the battle against racism and inequality.
McKenzie-Kohl Tuckett, Ywione Darrell and Nizae Douglas, members of the island’s Youth Parliament, were speaking before a pla...
DATE: Jun 06, 2020
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Young black people who found themselves in court often implied they felt like voiceless “pariahs”, the island’s senior magistrate said yesterday.
Juan Wolffe added that, based on his observations of people who appeared in civil, criminal and family c...
DATE: Jun 05, 2020
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Almost 200 people raised more than $5,000 to help families in need after they joined a virtual race on the Bermuda Day holiday.
The event was organised by members of the Mid Atlantic Athletic Club who wanted to uphold the tradition of running despite...
DATE: Jun 04, 2020
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About 250 people turned out last night to light candles to focus attention on domestic violence.
The event was organised by Safe Space Bermuda, launched in honour of Chavelle Dillon-Burgess, a young mother who went missing in April.
Sarah Robinson, o...
DATE: Jun 04, 2020
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A controversial beauty products tycoon scheduled to take up the US Consul General’s post this summer made headlines in America after he shared “conspiracy theories and unfounded attacks” about President Donald Trump’s political opponents on Twitter.
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DATE: Jun 01, 2020
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Hundreds of people linked up online for the first virtual Bermuda Day celebration yesterday.
Residents and viewers from overseas logged on to Facebook to watch footage of previous parades, interviews with stars who took centre stage or people who wor...
DATE: May 30, 2020
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The health minister tonight praised “the majority of residents” for their responsible behaviour after 230 Covid-19 test results came back clear.
But Kim Wilson reminded the public to continue to wear masks and keep a safe distance from others in publ...
DATE: May 30, 2020
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A first-of-its-kind Gombey performance recording will form the grand finale of a virtual Bermuda Day Parade tomorrow, one of the event’s organisers promised yesterday.
Qian Dickinson, of the social-media platform Bermemes, said that the team had work...
DATE: May 28, 2020
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