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Government has no plans to introduce a feeding programme for children who go without food before school and believes breakfast-skipping may not be connected to poverty.
Jennifer Attride-Stirling, the Government’s health promotion co-ordinator, told T...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Correne Dummett’s daily schedule would probably exhaust a woman half her age.
There simply aren’t enough hours in the day for the 68-year-old - who brings up her 11-year-old grandson, cares for her 100-year-old mother and looks after her two-year-old...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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Correne Dummett tells a story of a little girl who benefits from her church’s school feeding programme and it is shocking to hear in a country regularly trumpeted as one of the richest in the world.
“A guy was delivering the lunches and the breakfast...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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Government is being urged to launch an Island-wide programme for underfed schoolchildren by a group of volunteers who provide breakfast and lunch for 30 hungry youngsters each weekday.
The five women - all members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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It’s changed my life, it’s completely changed my life,” says Bermudian artist Peter Lapsley of his move to New York to study for a masters degree in fine arts at Parsons New School for Design.The 30-year-old former gallery director of Bermuda Society...
DATE: Apr 28, 2007
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A 17-year-old boy who helped rescue spectators trapped beneath a runaway horse carriage during Wednesday’s disastrous Harbour Night told yesterday how he thought one man had been killed.
Jack Bridges, from Hamilton Parish, helped lift the vehicle int...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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Government Chief Whip Ottiwell Simmons will stand down from Parliament at the next general election.
A statement signed by the MP announcing his decision not to run again in Pembroke East — the constituency he has served for more than 30 years since ...
DATE: Apr 26, 2007
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A cruise ship company yesterday claimed that five of its crew members were set upon by a gang at Dockyard — leaving one man recovering in hospital last night.
Police confirmed that a crewman was pushed into the sea and suffered suspected broken ribs ...
DATE: Apr 25, 2007
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A nurse whose husband’s sudden death eight years ago prompted her to start raising funds for charity is now preparing to help hungry children — here and in Africa.
Gaynell Hayward’s firefighter husband John died of a massive heart attack aged 44 on M...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown last night declared himself “excited” by the increased number of tourists who visited the Island in 2006.
The Government’s latest Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics reveals that the amount of visitors rose by almost a quarter compar...
DATE: Apr 24, 2007
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