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An island-wide campaign has been launched to help people with asthma take control of the condition.
Blue “quick reliever” asthma inhalers are being featured on 23 public buses and in newspaper advertisements to raise awareness.
BHB asthma nurse edu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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Health
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News Staff
Saltus Grammar School students will host a grub day today to help raise money for hurricane relief efforts.
Category 5 Hurricane Irma devastated parts of the Caribbean that are again seeing widespread destruction caused by Hurricane Maria.
Deputy he...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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Twelve bus runs have been cancelled this morning, according to a spokesman for the Department of Public Transportation.
Eight of the runs were already scheduled to depart by the time the notice was sent out at 8.10am.
The other four bus routes affe...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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More than 100 Butterfield team members turned out at Warwick Long Bay to help Keep Bermuda Beautiful with a coastal cleanup.
Employees combed the beach, surrounding walking trails, parking lots and the playground to collect 12 bags of trash, and eigh...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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News Staff
Around 300 children got the chance to hone their creative skills at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art this summer.
Masterworks said at least 30 of the placements on the eight-week camp were a result of donations from the public.
Tom Butterfield, ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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Children whose parents cannot afford homes with large yards will benefit from a Throne Speech pledge to protect public open spaces, according to environmental group BEST.
BEST said Bermuda’s acres of forests and meadows were “dwindling” and praised t...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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Politics
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News Staff
Tobacco Bay has won the Expert’s Choice Award with the website TripExpert.
The St George’s beach, operated by Beach Boys Ltd, is the first in Bermuda to win the international award, according to East End MP Renée Ming.
Ms Ming said in a statement: “I...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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News Staff
The Food Walk in Chancery Lane, scheduled for noon to 2pm today, has been postponed because of bad weather.
The event, part of the City Food Festival, has been rearranged for tomorrow at the same time.
Other items on the agenda for the festival inclu...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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A Bermuda delegation participated in a plaque exchange on the cruise ship MS Aurora.
The meeting came as the P&O ship made a short stop-over at King’s Wharf in Dockyard.
Transport minister Walter Roban led the delegation on board the Bermuda-register...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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Politics
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News Staff
National Security Minister Wayne Caines told MPs that a Royal Bermuda Regiment contingent had lifted off from Bermuda to help in relief efforts in hurricane-hammered Turks & Caicos.
Mr Caines, a former officer in the RBR, said: “This call for aid cou...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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Other
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News Staff