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Parents yesterday told of their panic on finding that the woman hired to look after their baby had tested positive for tuberculosis — and kept silent.
The shock revelation prompted the infant’s parents to quarantine themselves and warn others.
The co...
DATE: Oct 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Empowering cash-strapped community groups, and bringing sex offenders’ registry legislation before Parliament, are among the Opposition’s pledges in its platform for crime and education.
And an expansion of preschool places, especially for single par...
DATE: Oct 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda will see 24,000 fewer cruise visitors next year, according to Government forecasts.
Meanwhile, the final tally for 2012 is expected to come in at 360,000 — largely due to the loss of the Carnival Cruise Lines visits that propelled 2011 to its...
DATE: Oct 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Island's forthcoming cruise ship schedule shows a sharp drop in the number of overall calls to Bermuda, according to a shipping source.
Next year's cruise schedule will deliver 35 less ships for the season, from 163 this year down to 128.
However...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Residents in a quiet Smith’s neighbourhood spoke yesterday of their horror at being awakened late at night by a volley of gunshots.
According to a neighbour, a man was fired upon by an unknown gunman shortly before 11pm on Monday, but escaped without...
DATE: Oct 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
All the tension of the US election’s final stretch filled the air as Bermudian student Amanda Spencer took her place in the audience for the last Presidential debate.
High security was also highly visible, according to Ms Spencer, with each auditoriu...
DATE: Oct 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The latest air arrivals figures are no endorsement for Bermuda’s tourism marketing strategy, according to the One Bermuda Alliance.
Calling the third-quarter figures “volatile”, Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell said they showed a lack of clear...
DATE: Oct 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sniping over Government’s insurance bill continues between the Progressive Labour Party and the One Bermuda Alliance.
In the war of words over who said it first, Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards countered Premier Paula Cox’s statement that the OB...
DATE: Oct 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Prominent Bermudian businessman Kirby Brackstone has died suddenly at his Paget home, of a suspected heart attack, at the age of 43.
According to his wife Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, Mr Brackstone had became unwell on Friday at his Hamilton business,...
DATE: Oct 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudians risk losing access to the top jobs if they continue to lag in higher education, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons warned.
The One Bermuda Alliance MP also reaffirmed his party’s promise to bring in a technical curriculum at the middl...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
