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Opposition MPs last night called on Education Minister Randy Horton to immediately publish in full the results of an independent inquiry into the CedarBridge mould crisis.
Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson and UBP backbencher Grant Gibbons said t...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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A bridge built by US troops more than 50 years ago which connects the main Island to St. George’s will close to marine traffic until further notice from tomorrow.
The Ministry of Works and Engineering said yesterday that Longbird Bridge - the moving ...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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Teachers' union leader Mike Charles last night threw his weight behind calls for a Government-funded Island-wide feeding programme for children going without breakfast.
The general secretary of Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) said he suspected the tr...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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Two brothers who arrived in Bermuda yesterday afternoon after crossing the Atlantic from North Carolina in a tiny open-topped boat were warned last night of the dangers of heading back out to sea.
Ralph and Bob Brown are aiming to set a new world rec...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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A recovering drug addict who is helping the US Consulate with a campaign to keep Bermudians off the "stop list" barring entry to America has been rewarded for his efforts.
Steven Somner — who was unable to travel to the States for more than ten years...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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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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