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Doctors aren’t the only ones witnessing a rise in patients who can’t pay: social assistance agencies also report an increase in medical arrears.
“We have certainly seen an increase in clients coming in with debts of all kinds — but unpaid medical bil...
DATE: Apr 23, 2013
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One year after she had to postpone the trip, a St David’s student is off to the US — thanks to generous sponsors in Bermuda.
“It’s a ten-day conference, meeting new people, exploring politics and debate,” said Staesha Pitcher of the upcoming Global Y...
DATE: Apr 22, 2013
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A desperate Pembroke mother said gang-fuelled bullying has left her with no choice but to leave the Island with her sons.
The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said teenage boys from her neighbourhood were regularly “jumped” if they went in...
DATE: Apr 22, 2013
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A local company has pitched in on behalf of three charities, in the first day of giving for Tokio Millennium Re.
Staff spent Thursday restoring Dockyard’s historic Casemates Barracks, clearing the grounds at WindReach, and painting the library for Th...
DATE: Apr 20, 2013
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For the first time in their history, food distributors the Eliza DoLittle Society (TEDS) have found themselves unable to meet demands.
Numbers have surged on Bermuda’s food supply centres just in the past six months, executive director Margaret Ward ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2013
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The 75th Agricultural Exhibition made an apparent break with tradition this year — the SPCA weren’t invited.
“This year, nothing — they just cut them off,” said the group’s former animal welfare officer Debbie Masters.
She said it’s been customary fo...
DATE: Apr 20, 2013
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A boat stranded along Ferry Reach is not abandoned — and its owner has appealed for it to be left alone after it was broken into.
“Nobody abandons a $120,000 boat,” said Oluf Ingemann whose 40ft trawler was left high and dry in 2010 by Hurricane Igor...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Animal wardens are yet to determine how caged ducklings, found lifeless in a Botanical Gardens enclosure, died.
The birds, which were found dead on April 8, have been examined with no answers forthcoming.
A Parks Department spokeswoman said: “We do n...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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Sticking to an improbable story for shoplifting $20 of cosmetics resulted in a court date for a 23-year-old mother of two.
Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Donita Smith he had been willing to dismiss her case with a conditional discharge.
Inst...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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A “repeat offender” with a history of mental illness and addiction was jailed for three years.
Tracyston Mallory, 26, of Boundary Crescent, Devonshire, admitted stealing liquor and jewellery totalling $4,770, from Devonshire homes.
The thefts occurre...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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