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A 98-year-old widow with dementia and diabetes who has been ruled ineligible for Financial Assistance was last night still home alone despite a visit from a Department of Health social worker yesterday.
Mrs O was assessed at the rundown property wher...
DATE: Dec 15, 2011
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A 98-year-old widow suffering from dementia and diabetes who lives alone in her rundown family home has been ruled ineligible for Financial Assistance by Government.
Mrs O is in desperate need of round-the-clock care but because she has a “life inter...
DATE: Dec 14, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox today urged taxpayers to get involved in helping Government draw up the next Budget.
She released a pre-Budget report in the House of Assembly and later told a lunchtime press conference that it was crucial citizens felt a part of t...
DATE: Dec 12, 2011
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The colleague of a former office manager accused of sexually molesting a much younger employee told a court she never saw anything “strange” in her boss’s interaction with his alleged victim.
The woman appeared as a defence witness at the Magistrates...
DATE: Dec 12, 2011
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda will take part in a global remembrance service this weekend for parents who have lost a child and those who want to support them.
The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting is at Bright Temple AME Church, on Spring Hill Road, Warwick...
DATE: Dec 09, 2011
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Violent offenders are being granted early release from prison by the Parole Board without any police assessment of their “criminal threat to the community”.
The latest convict to leave jail after serving the minimum time possible is Cervio Cox, who w...
DATE: Dec 09, 2011
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Crime
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Sam Strangeways
Employers who make Bermudians redundant need to make sure no one else is hired to do their jobs, union boss Chris Furbert warned yesterday.
The Bermuda Industrial Union president called a press conference to announce that the three Bermudians who los...
DATE: Dec 06, 2011
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American Airlines flights servicing Bermuda should be unaffected by the company filing for bankruptcy protection at least for now.
AA spokeswoman Martha Pantín told The Royal Gazette: “American Airlines continues to operate normally. Our customers wi...
DATE: Nov 30, 2011
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Tourism
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Sam Strangeways
The Anglican church in Pembroke is appealing for help from the community due to an “unprecedented” demand for food for the hungry. St Augustine's, St Monica's and St John's, the churches within the Anglican Parish of Pembroke, give out free food vouc...
DATE: Nov 25, 2011
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Cabinet Minister Glenn Blakeney did his “best to provide a wholesome family environment” for his son Jahmel but “can’t live his life for him”, he told The Royal Gazette.
Mr Blakeney, during an interview with this newspaper a year ago, as his middle s...
DATE: Nov 25, 2011
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