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A long-serving St David’s teacher and counsellor popularly known as “Auntie Helene” has died aged 89.
Helene Paynter, who taught for more than 30 years at St David’s Primary School, was also the daughter of the school’s founder, Hilton Richardson.
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DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Seniors at the Lorraine Rest Home have a brand new set of wheels, courtesy of the outreach group Friends of Christ Church in Warwick.
In a ceremony yesterday outside the home, Warwick Parish Council collected the keys to an $80,000 Toyota Coaster min...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Bermuda’s best response to a blood drive has been welcome news to recipients like Adrian Warner, whose life depends on transfusions of donated blood.
Mr Warner, a sickle cell anaemia sufferer, was gratified to hear of the high turnout of new donors i...
DATE: Jun 20, 2013
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Iconic West End educator Hope Bascome, whose public school career spanned more than four decades, has passed away at the age of 101.
“She lived long, she lived well, and she touched many lives in school and in church,” nephew Glenn Bascome told The R...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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Advocates of the long-fought initiative to expand human rights gave mixed applause to last night’s passage of the Human Rights Amendment in the House of Assembly.
A spokesman for campaigners Two Words and a Comma told The Royal Gazette: “This is a si...
DATE: Jun 15, 2013
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An attempt to specifically block same-sex marriage from the Human Rights Act Amendment was last night defeated 18 to 12 in the House of Assembly.
Progressive Labour Party MP Wayne Furbert sought to attach a proviso to the amendment stating that nothi...
DATE: Jun 15, 2013
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Former Premier Alex Scott has been appointed Commander of the British Empire, and charity founder Clem Talbot recognised as Member of the British Empire along with Raleigh Bermuda’s Michael Spurling.
For Mr Scott, the accolade made for “an exhilarati...
DATE: Jun 15, 2013
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Bermuda faces a healthcare “disaster” if the Island doesn’t rein in its diabetes epidemic, a leading healthcare speaker has warned.
Controversial US medical expert Robert Lustig said at least a quarter of the Island’s population has the disease.
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DATE: Jun 14, 2013
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Human rights champion Lois Browne Evans would have been disappointed by the Progressive Labour Party’s ambivalent stance on the Human Rights Act, according to her daughter Tina Evans Caines.
An amendment outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexua...
DATE: Jun 14, 2013
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A halfway house for women recovering from addiction is low on residents — but not vacant, according to the Department of National Drug Control.
A spokeswoman responded to assertions of an anonymous source quoted by broadcasters ZBM news.
The source c...
DATE: Jun 10, 2013
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