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Eleven young Bermudians are looking forward to a career in the hospitality industry after completing a hotel training course through the Bermuda Hospitality Institute.
The students are to begin a work experience programme at a number of Isla...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
A health watchdog is backing calls for improved standards in nursing homes, claiming that the Island is failing to care for its weakest members.
The Bermuda Healthcare Advocacy Group (BHAG) said it supports claims by Shadow Seniors Minister Derrick B...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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Health
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Gareth Finighan
The Corporation of Hamilton has earmarked an additional $250,000 to host a controversial conference on the Island later this year.
The municipality has already agreed to pay the Atlanta-based Conference of Black Mayors (CBM) $100,000 to hold its annu...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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Politics
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Gareth Finighan
Football fans heading to Brazil for this month’s World Cup are being advised to make sure their vaccinations are up-to-date.
According to a Department of Health spokesman, one of the vaccines may include a second dose of measles, mumps and rubella. A...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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Builders are on target to complete a new hospital wing before handing over the project to health chiefs next week.
According to a spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB), all heavy construction work is complete and building teams are now wo...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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A group of 20 middle school teachers have completed leadership training as part of a programme to raise professional standards within the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Grant Gibbons said that improving teaching and learning in the class...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A campaign to raise $40 million for a down payment on the new hospital wing is still well short of its target — with the deadline for payment just two weeks away.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) has to come up with the lump sum by June 14, two days...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Firefighters had to tackle a series of random blazes over the weekend, but fire chiefs have ruled out foul play as a cause of the blazes.
The first incident took place at around 7.15pm on Saturday when a large pile of wood and debris caught fire from...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
Government has no plans to legalise marijuana, claiming that “it is wrong to yield to a more permissive attitude socially without due regard to the social, economic and health consequences”.
But under planned reforms of cannabis laws, police could be...
DATE: May 31, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
This year’s Bermuda Day celebrations have been hailed as “picture perfect” in which “our sense of being proud to be Bermudian was palpable”.
Providing a summary of Monday’s races and parade, Community Affairs Minister Wayne Scott said in the House of...
DATE: May 31, 2014
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