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Teachers pledged last night to take no further action over the Ministry of Education's failure to give them a promised pay rise last month — after they were assured they would receive it by the end of October.
Hundreds of teachers attended a union me...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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The Cabinet Minister responsible for seniors is to meet with his Opposition counterpart after she claimed she forced him to act to help an alleged elder abuse victim.
Culture and Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler and Shadow Health and Senior...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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Opposition MP Louise Jackson last night called for urgent amendments to a new law aimed at tackling elder abuse, claiming seniors were still falling through the cracks.
The Shadow Minister for Health and Seniors said the latest alleged case of abuse ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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New Deputy Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva never meant to stick with the Bermuda Police Service.
He started out as a cadet in 1985 before heading to Bermuda College with every intention of pursuing a career in law.
But things don't always work ou...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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A 7.5 acre "virgin" plot has been donated to the Buy Back Bermuda campaign, which has lauded it as one of the largest gifts of land ever made to the Island.
Sharon Vesey officially handed over the untouched woodland site known as Skroggins Hill, in S...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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Opposition politician Shawn Crockwell last night called for anti-gang legislation to break the growing problem of youth violence.
Mr. Crockwell spoke out as a new survey revealed that crime remains the public's number one concern, with 32 percent of ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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A 65-year-old man accused of abusing a mentally impaired senior admitted yesterday that he had taken photographs of her naked as a warning to her to get dressed — but said he saw nothing wrong with that.
During an interview lasting almost two hours a...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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A 75-year-old alleged elder abuse victim appeared to have been left to fend for herself for most of yesterday after two men accused of harming her were banned from her home.
The woman, who is understood to have the mental age of a child, was placed u...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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A 75-year-old woman has been placed under a protection order due to allegations that two younger men moved into her home and abused her.
A judge issued the order this week — the first of its kind under the new Senior Abuse Register Act 2008 — after C...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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A man accused of abusing and exploiting a 75-year-old mentally impaired woman after moving into her home with another man denied he had done anything wrong last night.
The 45-year-old painter and decorator admitted he owed the frail senior $10,000 an...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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