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Public Works staff taking basic skills classes at CARE Learning Centre have proven inspirational to their younger classmates.
“They do it for self-satisfaction, upward mobility in the workplace, and to assist their children with their school work,” s...
DATE: Apr 16, 2013
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Tomorrow marks the deadline for charities to have their say on updates to the Charities Act, 1978.
Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy described the amendments as expanding the definition of “charitable organisations”.
The intent is to provide an incr...
DATE: Apr 16, 2013
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Much-needed community programmes in Pembroke will get a boost from an upcoming spring fair held by the Anglican Church.
Bishop-elect Nick Dill said the festival will help provide meals for the roughly 120 people each week who come to St Monica’s and ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2013
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Bermuda is being promoted by a prominent US cancer researcher as a centre for international medical conferencing.
New York oncologist Francis Arena chose the Island as a base for the first in an anticipated series of gatherings starting this July.
“I...
DATE: Apr 15, 2013
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Pilot and diver Forrest Williams Jr is taking his love of boats to the next level thanks to the skills he picked up from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
His seven-year journey started with a chance reference from a CedarBridge Academy teache...
DATE: Apr 15, 2013
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A much-loved West End cabby was yesterday recalled by family and friends at a gathering near his Somerset home.
Many people only knew Anson Simmons, 83, by his nickname, “Aching Heart”.
He was a taxi driver “right up until his last day”, recalled dau...
DATE: Apr 15, 2013
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An 83-year-old Sandys resident died while walking on the Railway Trail close to his home at Bluebell Lane in Somerset.
Taxi driver Anson Simmons was found by a neighbour at 8.15am yesterday alongside the Railway Trail, south of its junction with Soun...
DATE: Apr 13, 2013
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Bermuda’s adoption of the Cambridge International Curriculum (CIE) was given high marks by Education Minister Nalton Brangman.
The Island’s middle school M3 students are to sit their first examinations under the new curriculum next week.
Middle schoo...
DATE: Apr 12, 2013
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Education
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Police have named Anson Simmons as the man found dead on the Railway Trail this morning.
The 83-year-old was found in "an unresponsive state" in Sandys around 8.15.
According to a Police spokesman, Mr Simmons died during his "usual morning walk".
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DATE: Apr 12, 2013
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One person’s willingness to sign her name in defence of a same-sex couple is “a positive step for the Island”, the Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda said.
But the group, which campaigns for the rights on non-straight individuals, added that the complaint p...
DATE: Apr 11, 2013
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