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The chairman of the Coalition for the Protection of Children is to step down after more than 25 years with the organisation she founded.
Sheelagh Cooper, who was executive director of the charity for decades before she became chairman, is to refocus ...
DATE: May 30, 2018
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Jevon Williams, a lawyer at AIG, was announced as the new chairman for the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
Dwayne Caines, a spokesman for the Bermuda Police Service, was named as deputy chairman.
Sheelagh Cooper, founder of the family assi...
DATE: May 30, 2018
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Belco is to run an education campaign on wireless devices at the forefront of the company’s modernisation plans.
“Smart meters”, which record electricity consumption in detail and beam readings straight to the power company, are set to replace tradit...
DATE: May 30, 2018
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Dilapidated buses and “unfair” management are frustrating bus drivers, according to Bermuda Industrial Union head Chris Furbert.
“The answer is that they need to buy more buses,” Mr Furbert said after union staff met on Thursday morning with official...
DATE: May 26, 2018
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No independent candidates are in the running for the double by-election on June 7.
Voters will choose between Scott Pearman of the One Bermuda Alliance and Curtis Richardson of the Progressive Labour Party. in Constituency 27, Paget East.
The race is...
DATE: May 25, 2018
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Eugene Carmichael, an adventurer and community activist, has died in Valencia, Spain. Mr Carmichael was 78.
A memorial service was held at West Whale Bay Park for the philanthropist, one of the original organisers of the End-to-End.
Mr Carmichael led...
DATE: May 24, 2018
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Today is the nomination day for candidates to represent Paget East and Warwick North East.
Constituencies 22 and 25 face double by-elections on June 7 after One Bermuda Alliance MPs Grant Gibbons and Jeff Baron stepped down.
Curtis Richardson will ma...
DATE: May 24, 2018
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A veteran former MP and member of the “class of ‘68” remembered “the greatest change in the social and political make-up of Bermuda” as the island marked the 50th anniversary of the historic General Election of 1968.
Walter Roberts, who represented t...
DATE: May 23, 2018
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David Burt made a case for Bermudian independence yesterday because he said it was unfair that Britain still exercised power over the island’s affairs.
The Premier told the House of Assembly it was “unacceptable in a modern democracy” to have “decisi...
DATE: May 23, 2018
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The Bermuda Sloop Foundation’s sail training ship has headed off on a four-day voyage from St George’s to Philadelphia.
The Spirit of Bermuda, which left on Sunday, will take part in the city’s Memorial Day Festival, from Friday to May 28.
The trip m...
DATE: May 23, 2018
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