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Education reform was already “dead on arrival” by the time a bipartisan parliamentary committee began reviewing progress, Opposition MP Grant Gibbons claimed yesterday.
The Shadow Education Minister told the House of Assembly that the joint select co...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell claimed last night that his counterpart in Government put a “gloss” and a “spin” this week on the 2011 visitor arrival figures.
Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert reported on Monday that Bermuda recorded the second...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Patient satisfaction with acute care services at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital rose last year, according to figures released yesterday.
A survey carried out on behalf of Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) found that levels of satisfaction increased in...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock has insisted she was entirely within her rights to launch an inquiry into special development orders (SDOs), despite Environment Minister Marc Bean describing her decision to do so as “peculiar”.
And she told The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Opposition MP Louise Jackson has called on Bermuda Hospitals Board to make public a report by US experts on the state of the Continuing Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
She said yesterday she welcomed the news that experts from Massach...
DATE: Feb 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A review of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s $13,800-a-month Continuing Care Unit has been done by experts from Boston.
But Bermuda Hospitals Board say the completed report from clinical partners at Massachusetts General Hospital is not for public...
DATE: Feb 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Green campaigners have welcomed a finding from the Ombudsman that Government “acted unlawfully” by not conducting a required assessment of the environmental impact of developing Tucker’s Point resort.
Arlene Brock tabled a report in Parliament yester...
DATE: Feb 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Fire engines were called to Morgan’s Point last night after a controlled burn of waste material wasn’t put out properly.
Divisional Officer Dana Lovell, from Bermuda Fire Service, said firefighters who had been dispatched to another call in the West ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A 59-year-old Korean man who took ill on board a bulk carrier bound from Texas to Belfast is due to arrive in Bermuda this morning for medical treatment.
A Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre duty officer said the South Korean-registered, 24,500-ton O...
DATE: Feb 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Goat farmers Gerry and Aletha Wilmot aren’t kidding when they say they have a lot of mouths to feed so they’ve come up with an ingenious device to do the job for them.
A wooden contraption specially made for them by a carpenter on the Island is allow...
DATE: Feb 10, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
