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The Island’s two Government rest homes were dealt modest funding cuts in the latest Budget.
Funding for the East End’s Sylvia Richardson Care Facility fell 5.8 percent — from $5.47 million to $5.27 million.
Lefroy House lost 5.7 percent of its $5.4 m...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board last night admitted it would be “challenged” by budgetary constraints after it received a Government subsidy of $104 million, unchanged from last year.
But the Ministry of Health and Seniors got a two percent boost in yest...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
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Author Rodney Smith Jr started out offering relationship tips to women as “just a hobby”.
The response he got was strong enough that he decided to put his advice somewhere people could access it permanently.
The result is ‘Words From a Gentleman: Fro...
DATE: Feb 23, 2013
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A restaurant owner described the moment she faced down an armed robber in a popular neighbourhood eatery.
The attempted gun robbery was a first in about five years of business for the Wok Express in Southampton.
“It’s a shame a thing like this could...
DATE: Feb 22, 2013
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Elderly patients are to be moved out of acute care beds as the Bermuda Health Council looks to stem a “crippling” rise in the Island’s health costs.
The organisation claims that with bills running more than $30,000 a month per person, the hospital ca...
DATE: Feb 20, 2013
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Developer Gilbert Lopes wants to have a Special Development Order amended, so he can build more homes at Grand Atlantic.
He said he has faith that the properties will sell despite the lack of interest shown in the first three phases he built at the S...
DATE: Feb 20, 2013
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Emergency vehicles were tied up on other jobs at the time of an industrial accident that claimed the life of a construction worker at Morgan’s Point.
Workers from the former base land in Sandys have questioned the speed of the response to the acciden...
DATE: Feb 19, 2013
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A Bermudian veterinarian who was denied a top Government vet job has won a fresh day in court, continuing an almost 16-year legal battle.
Susann Smith’s discrimination case against the Environment Minister began in 1997, when her Government contract ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2013
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As Bermudians abroad emerge from the US East’s blizzard, one group in particular has cause to smile — Warwick Academy’s ski trip.
The group of 31 students and eight teachers managed to make it to Vermont’s Killington Resort just in advance of the sno...
DATE: Feb 12, 2013
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Tougher rules for Government aid have been given a cautious assessment by the Island’s social agencies.
The stricter measures for both Financial Assistance and Child Day Care will see Government requiring certain clients to take “mandatory life skill...
DATE: Feb 11, 2013
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