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An amputee and activist for the disabled said she felt humiliated after a friend had to push her on a trolley to Cooper’s Island beach over the Cup Match holiday in the wake of government workers refusing to allow friends to drop her off closer to t...
DATE: Aug 01, 2020
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Pembroke residents have called for action over pollution from Belco’s newest generator.
Doris Wade, who lives near the plant, said that while the company has offered to clean water tanks and roofs, a long-term plan was needed.
She said: “Like quite a...
DATE: Aug 01, 2020
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Two men were arrested today after an incident involving a blade at a beach car park.
A police spokesman said that Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers reported a disturbance involving three men, one of whom was said to have a knife, at Horseshoe Bay aroun...
DATE: Jul 30, 2020
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An antiracism charity today praised the decision to conduct “mock sobriety tests” at Horseshoe Bay over the holiday weekend.
A spokeswoman for Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said the measure, the brainchild of the Bermuda Road Safety Council, w...
DATE: Jul 30, 2020
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The Government broke ground yesterday on what will be a new international arbitration centre developed as part of a public-private partnership.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch announced the construction of the Ottiwell Simmons International Arbitratio...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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Two new cases of Covid-19 came to the island on Monday’s Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta, the Government revealed.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said the two were found in the latest round of 555 tests for the virus.
The cases brought the i...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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An environmental charity has launched a community competition to find a logo for its Adopt-a-Spot programme.
Keep Bermuda Beautiful has called on professional and amateur graphic designers to design a new logo for the programme, which encourages indi...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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David Burt, the Premier, last night mourned the death of Owen Arthur, a former Prime Minister of Barbados.
Mr Arthur died on Monday at the age of 70.
Mr Burt described Mr Arthur, who led the Caribbean nation between 1994 and 2008, as a “leader of gre...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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A Royal Bermuda Regiment soldier who saved her wheelchair-bound brother-in-law from a blazing house has won the Hero of the Year from the Kiwanis Club of St George’s.
Latoya Brown-Hayward pulled Omar Hayward -a Paralympian — from their home after she...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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The Ombudsman has logged an increased number of complaints about the island’s prison system.
The office dealt with 263 complaints last year, with 55 of them to do with the Department of Corrections — almost five times more than any other body.
The Be...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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