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Bermuda College students’ consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs has been surveyed for the first time.
The National Drug Control Department’s poll of 243 students over the spring semester showed alcohol as the drug of choice — but revealed t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2013
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Westgate prison has already deployed cell phone blocking technology, according to Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb — but the equipment is currently offline for improvement.
“We have for some time now had cellphone jamming equipment, with a goo...
DATE: Jun 24, 2013
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Premier Craig Cannonier defended embattled Attorney General Mark Pettingill, who he said had met privately with clergy in the wake of remarks branded offensive by the Opposition.
Progressive Labour Party MPs kept up the pressure on Mr Pettingill duri...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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Westgate prison has already deployed cell phone blocking technology, according to Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb — but the equipment is currently offline for improvement.
“We have for some time now had cellphone jamming equipment, with a goo...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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A long-serving St David’s teacher and counsellor popularly known as “Auntie Helene” has died aged 89.
Helene Paynter, who taught for more than 30 years at St David’s Primary School, was also the daughter of the school’s founder, Hilton Richardson.
“S...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Three men accused of conspiring to shoot another have been found not guilty by a jury — but their Supreme Court trial continues for a charge of using a firearm.
Jahkeil Samuels, 27, Jamin Saltus, 23, and Ronniko Burchall, 22, are on trial alongside A...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Seniors at the Lorraine Rest Home have a brand new set of wheels, courtesy of the outreach group Friends of Christ Church in Warwick.
In a ceremony yesterday outside the home, Warwick Parish Council collected the keys to an $80,000 Toyota Coaster min...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Bermuda’s best response to a blood drive has been welcome news to recipients like Adrian Warner, whose life depends on transfusions of donated blood.
Mr Warner, a sickle cell anaemia sufferer, was gratified to hear of the high turnout of new donors i...
DATE: Jun 20, 2013
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Two men charged with the 2010 gun murder of Kimwandae Walker have had the case against them put on hold in the Supreme Court.
Westgate inmate David Cox, 33, and Julian Washington, 23, of Pembroke, had been jointly accused of the April 2, 2010 murder ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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Iconic West End educator Hope Bascome, whose public school career spanned more than four decades, has passed away at the age of 101.
“She lived long, she lived well, and she touched many lives in school and in church,” nephew Glenn Bascome told The R...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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