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A webinar series that starts this month will focus on how sleep can be used to boost productivity and make workplaces more efficient.
Dorothy Bradshaw will deliver the sessions, hosted by the Women’s Resource Centre, from April 20.
A spokeswoman expl...
DATE: Apr 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Two sessions to help women achieve financial independence will be run as part of the latest calendar of events from the Women’s Resource Centre.
Angela Joell, an education and investment manager at Argus Group, will tailor special courses to suit wom...
DATE: Apr 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A crackdown on bad driving habits appears to have resulted in fewer crashes for the second quarter in a row, police said yesterday.
There were 243 collisions from January to March this year, compared with 306 over the first three months of 2021 and 2...
DATE: Apr 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Drive for Change
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A woman who started writing poetry as a teenager will show others how they can use the art form to deal with emotions at a workshop this week.
Patricka Ferguson said that people who had never written poems before could find that the experience was no...
DATE: Apr 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A plan for “well over 300” units at the Fairmont Southampton was presented to environmental groups last year, a conservation charity said.
The Bermuda National Trust added that the scheme would “saturate the property with villas” if it went ahead.
Ge...
DATE: Apr 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Parking enforcement is being carried out by a City of Hamilton team again after a five-month hiatus.
The officers were among five staff hired last August but stopped issuing tickets in November until legislation was changed.
A city spokeswoman said l...
DATE: Apr 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Residents cannot rely only on the Government to stop violence that claimed the lives of two young men in two days, a charity said this morning.
A spokeswoman for Transitional Community Services added that “a sense of urgency” that moved people to act...
DATE: Apr 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Government has defended its plan to extend tax breaks to boost tourism despite concerns raised by a former finance minister.
Curtis Dickinson, who quit the post in February, warned that he generally did not support concessions for hotel developme...
DATE: Apr 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A section of Middle Road in Smith’s will be closed at the weekend as part of Belco trenching works across the island.
A notice from the Ministry of Public Works said that the closure was needed “to accommodate a crossover from the westbound lane into...
DATE: Apr 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A charity that renovates unsafe homes for families will tackle a backlog of cases after it completed a major project to provide housing for mothers and their children.
But Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman at Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, said that ...
DATE: Apr 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter