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Health teams, the Government and businesses braced themselves for the inevitable impact of Covid-19, which had taken more than 3,000 lives worldwide by March.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, announced that customs duty would be waived on hand saniti...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Businesses were shut, church services moved online and residents ordered to adhere to a 24-hour curfew that took effect on April 4.
Initially scheduled for two weeks, the state of emergency ultimately lasted for 28 days. It prevented all residents — ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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The disappearance of 26-year-old Chavelle Dillon-Burgess dominated headlines in May after police appealed to the public for help at the start of the month.
Friends, family and concerned members of the public scoured the island for the mother of an 18...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Just days before some 7,000 Bermuda residents marched through Hamilton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the island was left to mourn the passing of a Bermudian civil rights campaigner who fought a decades-long battle for racial equality...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The Covid-19 pandemic continued to dominate the news throughout July – but with positive headlines rather than bleak forecasts.
After months of quarantines, curfews and lockdowns, the number of active cases was withering to single figures. It seemed ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Young people harnessed their talent, hard work and passion to go above and beyond what was expected of them – regardless of their age or disabilities.
Aisling Homan, a Somersfield Academy pupil, aged 16, wrote and published a book of short stories ab...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
David Burt apologised to the public for overseeing an $800,000 loan from the public purse to an American music promoter who disappeared without paying it back.
The Premier issued a lengthy statement on Facebook on September 24 – the day after The Roy...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Although the Premier’s decision to call a General Election midway through a parliamentary term had come as a surprise, the result of that contest was probably never in doubt.
On October 1, Bermudians went to the polls and gave David Burt one of the b...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Bermuda Government paid out $11 million to cover redundancy payments to workers left unemployed by the closure of the Fairmont Southampton.
The hotel’s owner, Gencom, promised to reimburse the Government and move forward with renovations at the l...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus cast a pall over the final month of 2020, when the island lost its tenth person to the pandemic – the first death since May.
December brought a quiet festive season after a jump in coronavirus numbers sparked a re...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
