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The Centre on Philanthropy is urging people across Bermuda to celebrate a global day dedicated to giving back tomorrow.
Giving Tuesday is being marked around the world for the third year running, with charities, families, businesses, community centre...
DATE: Dec 01, 2014
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Avid beachcomber Andrew Davidson always wanted to find a message in a bottle when he was a little boy.
He never did — but as an adult he has come across two, the latest having been cast overboard from a cruise ship almost six years ago.
Mr Davidson w...
DATE: Nov 26, 2014
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Disappointed fans who failed to get tickets for world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s one-off performance in Bermuda have criticised the event organisers for making so few seats available to the general public.
The February 1 recital at City Hall, part o...
DATE: Nov 26, 2014
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A grieving mother is hoping to finally find out why her son died when an inquest is held into his death early next year.
Lynn Spencer lost son Christopher on October 27, 2012, after he collapsed at their home and she still has unanswered questions ab...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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A policeman who was filmed “fist bumping” a gang leader outside court after the man was acquitted of murder was simply responding instinctively to a gesture of acknowledgment, according to Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva.
The head of Bermuda Poli...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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Seniors are suffering abuse and neglect across Bermuda and the agency responsible for investigating is doing nothing about it, Opposition MP Derrick Burgess alleged yesterday.
The Shadow Seniors Minister claimed he personally told Health Minister Jea...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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Bermuda’s complex history, as well as its immense beauty, has inspired a writer to produce her first book of poetry.
Wendy Fulton Steginsky, who grew up on the Island and regularly returns here to visit family, will launch The Tide of Bermuda’s Light...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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The National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged has been accused of failing to investigate an alleged case of elder abuse — the latest in a series of complaints about the publicly funded agency.
The office, which receives almost $1 mill...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014
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National Philanthropy Day will be celebrated for the first time in Bermuda on Friday — on the steps of City Hall.
The Centre on Philanthropy will deliver a proclamation at noon to mark a day when people come together to consider the meaning of philan...
DATE: Nov 12, 2014
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A new immigration policy due to come into effect next month will “further marginalise” Bermuda’s local entertainers by failing to give them “fair opportunity in their country”, according to the Opposition.
But Government has rejected the claim, insis...
DATE: Nov 10, 2014
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