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A “blame and shame mentality” only hinders investigations into “adverse events” in healthcare, according to Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of staff Michael Weitekamp.
However, Dr Weitekamp added that “shield legislation” offered in Friday’s Throne Spe...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
A Government move to regulate the importation of expensive new healthcare gadgetry to the Island has been welcomed as a step toward reducing Bermuda’s escalating healthcare costs.
The latest Throne Speech declared upcoming changes to the law would in...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A town hall meeting billed as a fight to save the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre has been called by Lovitta Foggo, Progressive Labour Party MP for St David’s.
Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced it intends to close down the East End medical facility...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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A decision by supermarket chains to offer one year of discounts in a bid to ease food costs was hailed as “wonderful” by Eliza DoLittle head Margaret Ward.
Applauding the move by MarketPlace, Supermart and Lindo’s to offer ten percent discounted shop...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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A public consultation paper on the decriminalisation of cannabis has been promised by Government in its latest Throne Speech.
National Security Minister Michael Dunkley has made no secret in recent months of the need for open public dialogue on the i...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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Bermuda’s estimated population stood at 64,911 at the end of 2012 — an increase of 266, or 0.4 percent, over the 2011 estimate of 64,685.
The figures on births, marriages and deaths, reported by the Registry General, were tabled at the opening of Par...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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The Association of Filipinos in Bermuda raised more than $10,000 at a lunch held yesterday in aid of the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
The event drew about 300 people from across the community including Governor George Fergusson and Home Affairs Ministe...
DATE: Nov 12, 2013
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A gun salute boomed at 11am as the Island’s war veterans stood at attention for the annual Remembrance Day ceremony.
Yesterday’s salute signified two minutes’ silence in recognition of Bermuda’s men and women who served in the First and Second World ...
DATE: Nov 11, 2013
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Leading lights of Bermuda’s arts world have been celebrated, along with those who helped to bring them to the centre stage.
The 2013 Awards held by the Bermuda Arts Council filled City Hall’s Earl Cameron Theatre with applause and song, as authors Pe...
DATE: Nov 10, 2013
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Berkeley Institute students marched in a show of respect for former school principal, educator and social justice campaigner Clifford Maxwell.
The funeral at St Theresa’s Cathedral in Hamilton yesterday was packed with Berkeleyites of all ages, inclu...
DATE: Nov 09, 2013
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