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Income and education are the top determinants in both the health and health spending of Bermuda’s residents.
The Health Disparities Report 2013, released yesterday by the Bermuda Health Council, shows the extent to which social and economic forces af...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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Health
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Jonathan Bell
A bill raising Government’s health insurance premiums has been tabled in the House of Assembly.
The Health Insurance (Standard Hospital Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2013 will set a new monthly premium of $325.84.
The weekly rate is to be $75.19. In...
DATE: Mar 15, 2013
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Government is to discuss the fate of the Uighurs with US and UK authorities, according to their lawyer.
The news comes as a Chinese Muslim jailed at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba with the four men, disappeared from the island of Palau in the Pacific and re-em...
DATE: Mar 14, 2013
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Distinguished pilot warden and harbourmaster Edward Welch was yesterday laid to rest at sea.
Deputy pilot Warden Mario Thompson recalled him as a lifelong native of St George’s and a formal and taciturn man who mentored countless young men in the tra...
DATE: Mar 13, 2013
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The Bermuda Regiment’s top officer has discretion over the names placed on a memorial to fallen soldiers at Warwick Camp.
So explained Lieutenant Colonel Brian Gonsalves after questions were raised over a planned tribute to those who died while in se...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Shadow Community Minister Michael Weeks has called for a change in House of Assembly procedure to allow fair say.
The Progressive Labour Party MP is smarting from the “debacle” that denied him a chance to debate department heads with Community and Cu...
DATE: Mar 12, 2013
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Apartments at Warwick’s Grand Atlantic complex weren’t sold because of One Bermuda Alliance scaremongering, former Public Works Minister Michael Weeks said.
Mr Weeks called on the OBA Government to apologise, saying they’d “hoodwinked and bamboozled ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2013
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The case for a third man in the assassination of Governor Sir Richard Sharples is presented in a new book on the murders of 1972 and 1973.
Yesterday marked the 40-year anniversary of the night when Sir Richard was gunned down with his aide-de-camp Hu...
DATE: Mar 11, 2013
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The appointment of a new head for Wedco came as no surprise for veteran politician Walter Lister, who had already signalled his desire to step down as chairman.
After serving for most of 14 years, Mr Lister said he had already told then-Premier Paula...
DATE: Mar 11, 2013
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Fierce weekend rain failed to dampen round one of the Island Challenge, which so far has brought in about $30,000 for charity.
Organiser Aideen Ratteray Pryse congratulated the 89 teams that tackled the obstacle course at Warwick Camp and the shoreli...
DATE: Mar 11, 2013
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