226 results returned for search: "" category "General" author Fiona McWhirter
An organisation set up to support social services agencies has launched its 2022 training plan amid what is expected to be “another challenging” year.
The Inter Agency Committee for Children, Families and the Community said it would focus on three ma...
DATE: Feb 04, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Women who complete a live-in programme designed to give them stability and get their lives back on track could help future residents at the home in years to come.
Edonna Bean, the executive director of the Transformational Living Centre for Families,...
DATE: Jan 27, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A firefighter has been honoured for her work in the management of the island’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lieutenant Russann Francis won the Public Service Excellence Award for December.
She was congratulated by David Burt, the Premier, an...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A reminder was issued for people who work with refrigerant gases to make sure that they have the proper identification card.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said all technicians who handled or managed refrigerant gases for domesti...
DATE: Jan 18, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Officials failed to provide an internal review decision inside a statutory time limit after a request for records about appointments made by the Governor, the Information Commissioner found.
But a determination was issued during the course of an inde...
DATE: Jan 11, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Running a home to help women and their children is a dream come true for the service’s first executive director, she said.
Edonna Bean said: “This appointment is not a job for me … this is a dream coming to fruition for me.
“To be chosen to be of ser...
DATE: Jan 07, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
More than $1.5 million has been paid out from a heritage fund over the past six years to help finance East End projects including infrastructure works and the upkeep of a historic church, figures showed.
The money was amassed from a levy on fuel impo...
DATE: Dec 31, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A woman who spearheaded her family’s near 50-year battle for justice over a land theft said she that hoped the struggle would be over before she died.
Barbara Brown, 90, the mother of the late MP Walton Brown, who paved the way for a Commission of In...
DATE: Dec 23, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Two major property deals carried out more than 50 years ago were fraudulent, a hearing into allegations of land grabs ruled.
A report from the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses said that several men were part of a “criminal conspiracy” ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Families and friends gathered to get into the festive spirit at the Christmas Boat Parade on Saturday night.
The event at Hamilton Harbour made a return after a three-year hiatus.
At Albuoy's Point, spectators sat beside the water to get a good view ...
DATE: Dec 20, 2021
|
CATEGORY:
General
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter