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Public Works has pledged to reinstate a safety barrier across Tribe Road No 1, Southampton, two weeks after it was taken down.
The barrier had been implicated in the death of ten-year-old Tiffanelle Pitcher-Francis on January 11. Tiffanelle was kille...
DATE: Sep 05, 2014
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The make over of a dilapidated Pembroke home has left its residents singing the praises of the group Habitat for Humanity Bermuda — and determined to pass on the favour.
“I couldn’t believe what they accomplished in that short period of time — I have...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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The Salvation Army “hasn’t lost momentum” on replacing its decaying emergency housing shelter, new divisional commander Frank Pittman has vowed.
Major Pittman, who assumed his post a month ago, said he’d been taken aback by the decrepit state of the ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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A trio of Regiment soldiers are to take part in a massive British Army exercise in Africa.
Lieutenant Paolo Odoli, Colour Sergeant Jason Smith and Sergeant Dejion Stange will leave this weekend to travel to England to meet up with the Welsh Guards Ba...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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A young Bermudian student desperate to obtain her degree is pleading for help covering another year in college, after being forced to defer her education twice.
Kahnae Bean, 21, has been assisted by the New Beginnings Educational Trust — but the char...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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The television channel VSB 11 is to cease broadcasting on Monday, according to operator DeFontes Broadcasting.
The cut is not expected to be permanent, and the company emphasised yesterday that its radio stations and radio news broadcasts would conti...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Bermuda’s human rights legislation lags years behind the legal framework of other comparable jurisdictions, according to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) — especially in cases of mental illness.
HRC chairman Michael Hanson told The Royal Gazette it ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2014
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A case of wrongful dismissal and defamation against the Bermuda Hospitals Board and chief of medicine Keith Chiappa has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
However, fired doctor Charles Curtis-Thomas — who had sought $1.6 million in damages from BHB...
DATE: Aug 29, 2014
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A road barrier that proved lethal for a ten-year-old girl earlier this year has been removed pending modifications by Public Works.
But area resident Sidney Simons, who told The Royal Gazette he’d fought to get the barrier put up nearly 40 years ago,...
DATE: Aug 29, 2014
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Bermuda cannot lose its only shelter for victims of domestic abuse, according to Sheelagh Cooper of the Coalition for the Protection of Children — reacting to news that the cash-strapped facility had been forced to close as the Centre Against Abuse f...
DATE: Aug 28, 2014
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