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Two conferences tackling health finance issues conferences are to be held next week.
They follow on the release of a final version of Bermuda’s National Health Plan earlier this month.
The Health Financing Summit on November 21 is an invitation-only ...
DATE: Nov 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health Minister Zane DeSilva “thumbed his nose” at the law to get his development plans approved on protected land, an environmental group has charged.
Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) chairman Stuart Hayward said former Environm...
DATE: Nov 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Industrial Union has filed ten years of its accounts with Government meaning the union’s audited annual financial statements from 2000 to 2009 are now open to the public.
Anyone is now free to check paperwork for the BIU’s income, spendin...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
World Diabetes Day is marked today, with a discussion to be aired on ZBM radio with tips on managing the disease.
A panel from the Bermuda Diabetes Association will talk about self-managing diabetes, from 11am to 11.30am today.
Worldwide, diabetes ki...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is playing a part in a decade-long survey tracking the trace elements dissolved in the Earth’s oceans.
The last North Atlantic cruise for the international GEOTRACES ocean research project will stop at the Island this week, as part of its sam...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health Minister Zane DeSilva’s suggestion that the rich pay more for healthcare has drawn a sharp response from the One Bermuda Alliance, who speculate that Government is moving toward socialised medicine.
“It’s simply another form of income tax,” sa...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
With the Miss World competition over, it’s already time to start designing next year’s Miss Bermuda competition.
“It’s definitely going to continue as a yearly event,” vowed event director Milika Seymour, who revived the show after 14 years.
“We’re p...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The distilling of Bermudian experience into the ‘Meet the Bermudians’ series on CBS Radio has picked up an award from the International Academy of Visual Arts (IAVA). The group has chosen the campaign for the 2011 W3 Silver Award.
“The passionate peo...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Desperation drove a supermarket manager to steal from his employers, the accused man’s lawyer told Magistrates’ Court.
Gary Clayton Dillas, of Quarry Hill Road, Warwick, was employed as a front-end manager for the MarketPlace on Church Street.
He was...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 24-year-old Southampton man caught with cannabis told Magistrates’ Court he had been simply enjoying Father’s Day with his friends.
Makonnen Asir Tove De Chan Lowe was searched on June 19, after police on mobile patrol spotted a group of young men ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
