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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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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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