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Parents of students at the Bermuda High School for Girls were given a musical treat when they dropped their children off at the school gates yesterday morning.
A wind ensemble was on hand to herald the start of Easter celebrations.
The group of flaut...
DATE: Mar 28, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
New procedures to ensure that political candidates obey electoral laws are being put forward by Opposition MP Walton Brown.
The Shadow Education Minister said he was spurred into action after recent elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands developed...
DATE: Mar 28, 2013
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Politics
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Gareth Finighan
Convicted murderer Norris Simpson will have to wait until next month to discover his sentence for the brutal 2011 slaying of his landlady, Ida James.
Simpson, 54, who was found guilty of the killing of the retired social worker following a two-week l...
DATE: Mar 28, 2013
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Court
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Gareth Finighan
Government is taking steps to sell off two ageing ferryboats in its fleet of public vessels — nine years after they were withdrawn from full-time service.
Tenders are being invited for the boats Patience and Deliverance, which were built in 1986 and ...
DATE: Mar 27, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
A consultant commissioned by the Bermuda Hospitals Board to compile a report on how healthcare on the Island can be improved was told a catalogue of hospital horror stories at a public meeting last night.
Patient pressure organisation the Bermuda Hea...
DATE: Mar 26, 2013
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Ministry of Education’s budget for the next year was approved by Senators yesterday following a debate notable for its non-combative tone.
Education Minister Nalton Brangman spent almost two hours of the three hours put aside for the debate runni...
DATE: Mar 26, 2013
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The owners of a historic graveyard at the centre of an investigation over a possible breach of Planning regulations has defended its decision to remove “false” tombstones from the site.
And the Marsden Memorial Methodist Church also claims it sought ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
Just like generations before them, today’s teenagers have a reputation for being sullen, self-centred and lazy, spending their days in front of computer or TV screens, a set of headphones pressed to their ears, oblivious to the outside world.
But any...
DATE: Mar 25, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
The Senate approved a host of financial legislation on Friday following a lengthy Budget debate.
Once revenues and expenditures for the Ministries of Finance, Home Affairs, Legal Affairs and Economic Development had been approved, senators moved to r...
DATE: Mar 25, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
The former Progressive Labour Party Government was told that its controversial term limit policy was harming Bermuda’s business reputation and was totally unnecessary as early as 2006 — but chose to ignore the advice because it was not “politically e...
DATE: Mar 25, 2013
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