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The Bermuda High School for Girls is now the Island’s only school to be accredited by the Council of International Schools, BHS announced this morning.
It comes after an evaluation of the school’s ethos, faculty and governance by the Council — a glob...
DATE: Nov 08, 2014
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A cruise ship worker involved in a plot to smuggle $53,000 worth of cocaine into Bermuda has lost an appeal of his jail sentence.
Jamaican national Delroy Duncan was imprisoned for nine years in June, 2012, after his co-conspirator, Clarence James — ...
DATE: Nov 07, 2014
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Springtime arrivals from cruise ships were up ten percent on the previous year’s figures, but air arrivals in the second quarter dropped by 2.5 percent, with a total of 73,122 visitors coming through LF Wade International Airport.
The figures, releas...
DATE: Nov 07, 2014
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Government may have scrapped the National Health Plan that was expected, but a Bermuda Health Plan has been proposed for the fresh sitting of Parliament.
Health Minister Jeanne Atherden had made brief reference to the plan in September. In today’s Th...
DATE: Nov 07, 2014
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A doctor who used his cell phone while driving has been convicted of the offence, despite his argument that he was responding to a medical emergency.
However, surgeon Christopher Johnson, a former chairman of the Road Safety Council, vowed to appeal ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2014
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Rainy weather expected for tomorrow means the Throne Speech will be held indoors at the Cabinet building and closed to the public because of limited space.
Governor George Fergusson’s reading of the Throne Speech will take place in the Senate Chamber...
DATE: Nov 06, 2014
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Bermuda Weather Service director Kimberley Zuill is to speak on this year’s hurricane season, plus the two storms that struck the Island last month, at the annual conference in Florida of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH).
Ms Zuill will tak...
DATE: Nov 06, 2014
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The Island’s diabetes epidemic demands swift preventive action, according to Debbie Jones, director of the Bermuda Diabetic Association, who commended St George’s Preparatory School for phasing out sugary drinks, in her Hamilton Rotary Club address y...
DATE: Nov 05, 2014
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Health
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Slashing two women’s faces with a broken beer bottle has ended in three years’ imprisonment for a 40-year-old Pembroke woman.
A tearful Cureka Caines, of Happy Valley Road, told Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves she’d never intended to harm Donna Wooller...
DATE: Nov 05, 2014
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A stretch of Middle Road in Southampton near the Riviera Road junction is being dug up for Belco crews to fix an underground cable, the power company announced this afternoon.
The eastbound lane of the road by Waterlot Hill will be excavated for the ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2014
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