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A man was stabbed to death after a brawl erupted outside a sports club in the early hours of yesterday.
Danshun Swann was killed in the fight, which police said involved more than 20 people, including men who may have gang links.
The 25-year-old was ...
DATE: Aug 28, 2018
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The “real work” starts now to deliver a pay structure in Bermuda that aims to lift low-income workers off the breadline.
More than two years after Rolfe Commissiong, a government backbencher, first moved to launch a committee that would consider a li...
DATE: Aug 27, 2018
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My first taste of scuba diving was far from pleasurable.
I failed to find my sea legs and when I should have been getting to know the wildlife of the ocean, I was instead on deck being reacquainted with what I had for breakfast.
So it was with some t...
DATE: Aug 23, 2018
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Most little boys enjoy playing with toy diggers and trucks, but for three-year-old Max Correia the machines were real and his play became passion.
Now aged 24, the Devonshire resident is excited to be in a career where every day is different and he h...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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A skills shortage in the island’s building industry has been partly blamed on the appeal of jobs in computing and the internet.
Charles Dunstan, president of the Construction Association of Bermuda, said there remains “little success in convincing” y...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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Cutting back on pension payments or asking workers to contribute more are among the “hard choices” that must be made to ensure funds are available for seniors in the future.
Political commentators Denis Pitcher and Robert Stewart issued warnings over...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018
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The Jamaican Association has distanced itself from comments made by a former president who claimed the Premier’s calls to put Bermudians first were an insult to immigrants to the island.
Orville Campbell said David Burt should acknowledge the “great ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2018
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Hundreds of workers will see a savings scheme close this year after nearly four decades.
The Bermuda Public Services Union programme has “grown exponentially” since its creation in 1979 but interest on its funds is now “negligible”, members were told...
DATE: Aug 16, 2018
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Inspectors are to make regular visits to a nursery where three toddlers wandered off in a bid to ensure security improvements are carried out.
Operators of the First Church of God daycare centre in Pembroke were warned its licence could be suspended ...
DATE: Aug 16, 2018
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The management of Bermuda’s pension fund must be improved and the Government should take immediate action to get its annual accounts up to date.
Legislators were also asked to implement a string of proposals first put forward by spending experts more...
DATE: Aug 16, 2018
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