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Long-standing Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) director Aideen Ratteray Pryse has announced she’s stepping down to make way for “new ideas and new blood”.
“The film festival is renewing itself, in the process of developing a new business pl...
DATE: Aug 05, 2011
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The Niobe Corinthian gambling ship is to be appraised and sold, Chief Justice Richard Ground this afternoon ruled.
Selling the $4 million vessel will allow three former crew members, from Honduras, to receive the $40,000 in wages unpaid to them by it...
DATE: Aug 04, 2011
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Bermuda can import medicine from any country in the world, as long as the drugs are eligible for sale in the US, Canada or EU member states.
Junior Health Minister Cromwell Shakir told the Senate yesterday that cheaper generic drugs had resulted in s...
DATE: Aug 04, 2011
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Investment incentives for disadvantaged communities would be taken away by an Opposition proposal for an Island-wide Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ).
The Progressive Labour Party last night said the One Bermuda Alliance recommendation would detract f...
DATE: Aug 04, 2011
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A UK inquest into the death of Bermudian Dennis Lambert has concluded the 32-year-old died as a result of a drug overdose.
Mr Lambert was discovered in an unresponsive state at his flat in Thornton Heath in South London, on January 6.
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DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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A children’s rights campaigner has vowed to press on with her mission despite having her application for a child sex abuse charity turned down.
Debi Ray-Rivers says Bermuda needs better laws and resources to deal with the sexual abuse of children.
Sh...
DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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Cup Match swimmers across the Island have been left with itchy, sometimes painful rashes, caused by an influx of jellyfish larvae in local waters.
Popularly known as “sea lice”, the rash struck many who enjoyed Sunday’s Non-Mariner’s Race at Mangrove...
DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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Bermuda will host a major international summit on health financing this November as part of the Island’s continuing debate over healthcare and cost.
The Sixth Caribbean Conference on Health Financing Initiatives is to coincide with what Health Minist...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011
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Cup Match ended abruptly for 20 people, when their party boat struck a rock off Spanish Point on Sunday night. All passengers were evacuated safely after the 34ft vessel Bally Ho ran aground on a reef by Peter Tucker’s Bay.
A member of staff at the n...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011
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The Island will not see peace until Bermudians overcome a “materialistic mindset”, United Bermuda Party MP Kim Swan last night warned.
And Mr Swan added that Bermuda’s journey from segregation had coincided with “a massive shift in the way our famili...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011
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