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Bermuda College will run an intensive technical adult education programme this summer - to combat what it described yesterday as a looming "crisis" in the Island's technical trades.
Llewellyn Trott, the college's associate vice president of technical...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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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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