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The island’s only vehicle emissions test firm will be left in “chaos” when it is stripped of its contract to carry out checks for Transport Control Department, it was claimed yesterday.
Staff at Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd, which employs 13, said t...
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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A final push is under way for donations of sunglasses to help people plagued by eye conditions in Haiti.
Lucy Willitts launched the drive for shades last year after she experienced, first hand, the plight of residents in the poverty-stricken country....
DATE: Jan 25, 2019
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A $20 million increase in health spending failed to deliver a healthier Bermuda, it was feared yesterday.
The 2018 National Health Accounts Report showed the total public and private expenditure neared $723 million in 2016-17.
Bermuda was third behin...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
A young woman who took her own life is to be remembered by former colleagues at a charity event to support people with mental health problems.
Jessica Gibbons was 25 when her 2016 death by suicide shocked colleagues at Red Steakhouse in Hamilton, whi...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Parents were urged to find out the facts when the health minister called on them to ensure their families were vaccinated today.
Kim Wilson said misinformation and hearsay meant people had become resistant to life-saving preventive treatment.
The Dep...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
Almost $9 million worth of contracts covering a four-year period have been handed out by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, it has been revealed.
Cleaning and landscape companies, management services and external medical training were all included in the l...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
Primary school children have shared explicit pictures of themselves on mobile phones, a technology expert revealed yesterday.
Sloane Wilson, an acting junior analyst at the Government’s Department of ICT Policy and Innovation, said images were distri...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019
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A total of $1.5 million is to be paid to a professional services firm to help hospitals management to ease bed shortages and cut down on surgery cancellations.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board has signed up international company KPMG on a six-month contr...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
Laptop computers were stolen after a break-in at a Smith’s school, police said today.
A burglary at Whitney Institute Middle School, in Flatts, was believed to have happened over the weekend.
Police said it appeared a number of electronic items inclu...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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Crime
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Fiona McWhirter
City buildings could be brightened with art work if owners put their properties forward for a new public art programme.
The City of Hamilton has asked for suggestions on where people would like to see work created in the 2019 Vivid project.
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DATE: Jan 19, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter