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Cash-strapped charity the Family Centre are fundraising their way out of a budget shortfall, raising more than $50,000 in little more than a week.
Donor Kirk Kitson said the organisation, “bombarded” with families in need, is dead set on raising $200...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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Government was accused of electioneering and political manoeuvring over the apparent reversal of policy on mandatory GPS devices for the taxi industry.
Shadow Transport Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin voiced scepticism over what she termed an “eleve...
DATE: Nov 15, 2012
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After singing, dancing and back-flipping his way through the Gilbert and Sullivan show ‘The Producers’, teen gymnast and actor Marcus Smith has shown no signs of slowing down.
The 16-year-old went straight from one stage to another, playing Puck in ’...
DATE: Nov 10, 2012
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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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Politics
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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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Politics
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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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Court
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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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Health
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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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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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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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Education
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Jonathan Bell
