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The British media were branded “highly mischievous” yesterday by Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, after articles ran in two leading newspapers on a video that featured senior Bermudian officers.
The video, reported on by The Times and ...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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Grim figures on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic were revealed last night by the Minister of Finance.
Curtis Dickinson said the island’s total debt had gone up by about $520 million as a result of the double whammy of a plunge in revenues and pand...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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The company that operates Hamilton docks has been “severely impacted” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was revealed yesterday.
Warren Jones, the chief executive of Stevedoring Services Limited, said that job numbers on the docks were expected...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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Bermuda’s final day in court to settle same-sex marriage has been set for early in 2021.
Rod Attride-Stirling, who represents the gay rights organisation OutBermuda along with four other litigants on the issue, said last night the case would go befor...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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Growing up with a destructively alcoholic parent is fodder for humour as well as shock in Kirkland Hamill’s Bermudian-American memoir.
But Mr Hamill’s deeper message, to be shared on Wednesday in a live webinar about his just-published book, is: you’...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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An ice cream salesman pleaded for compensation from Belco after $10,000 of his stock melted during an electricity blackout in the West End.
Peter Jovetic, of Alex and Pete’s Bermuda Ice Cream Shop in Dockyard, lost dozens of gallons of ice cream that...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Mandatory terms in the island’s residential building code have driven up expense “without tangible benefit”, an electrical industry group has charged.
The group has planned a town hall meeting for today at 6.30pm at Francis Patton School in Hamilton ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Bermuda could be set for thunderstorms — and finally some tank rain — as the remnants of a former tropical storm approach the island.
Tropical storm Josephine, the tenth named storm of a busy Atlantic hurricane season, was downgraded to a tropical de...
DATE: Aug 16, 2020
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A drive for a memorial to a pioneer black footballer whose career was stonewalled by racism has surpassed its goal this week with the help of Bermudian player Clyde Best.
Jack Leslie, a friend of Mr Best’s, would have been the first black footballer ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2020
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A large range of hand sanitisers has been recalled after it was found to have microbe contamination as well as methanol, a highly toxic chemical.
Bermuda’s Department of Consumer Affairs sent out the alert yesterday on 135 contaminated hand sanitiser...
DATE: Aug 15, 2020
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