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With the general election set for December 17, the Island’s voters have a week left to sign up and settle their details with the Parliamentary Registrar.
The Registrar’s Reid Street office is open from today, 10am to 5pm, through next Friday, for wou...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
With general election called for December 17, business and community groups alike welcomed the close of a lengthy guessing game.
Bermuda Chamber of Commerce President Ronnie Viera spoke for many when he told The Royal Gazette: “Businesses do not like...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A hotel chef who sexually assaulted a male co-worker has escaped jail, but was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
Indian guest worker Marc Vivian Bungaleea apologised to his victim for the incidents, which occurred between October and December of last yea...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A planned year-long “implementation phase” of the National Health Plan will begin on April 1.
The move was one of several Throne Speech initiatives expanded on by Health Minister Zane DeSilva yesterday.
He said that two of six task forces appointed a...
DATE: Nov 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Latino community showed its numbers at the weekend’s annual Latin Festival, this year attended by hundreds.
Ariel Manzueta of organisers Ministerio Hermandad estimated there are between 1,000 and 1,500 Spanish speakers on the Island.
He said of t...
DATE: Nov 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Family Centre must raise $200,000 in the next two months if it is to meet an unprecedented demand for its services.
Social workers say demand has doubled in the past three years and the organisation is now struggling to assist more than 300 famil...
DATE: Nov 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new, 17-member Board of Education has been announced by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
On the agenda for the board’s first meeting yesterday was a discussion of the latest test scores, new chairman Curtis Dickinson said.
Flanked by Mr Dick...
DATE: Nov 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
After 25 years of bringing Santa Claus to Hamilton's streets, supermarket chain MarketPlace is “shocked and disappointed” that the City hit them with a $2,500 fee for the first time ever.
“This is the time of year when we should all be pulling togeth...
DATE: Nov 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Alternative schools are in for greater Government supervision, but the Opposition is asking why steps weren't taken years earlier.
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons said there were 25 tutorial sites three years ago, none of which held an operat...
DATE: Nov 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
US cruise visitors who’d booked a ten-day Caribbean tour had to settle for a day-and-a-half in Bermuda after Hurricane Sandy upended plans for the Norwegian Gem.
Rather than cancelling outright, the ship opted to moor at Dockyard on Sunday, setting s...
DATE: Nov 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
