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The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Elected officials at the Corporation of Hamilton have yet to sign up to a new code of conduct and guidelines for meetings issued by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy — and one senior member insists he and others will not be doing so.
Alderman Carlto...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An MP’s daughter found guilty of violently resisting arrest told a court yesterday that the police’s treatment of her was “dehumanising and painful”.
Law student M’aeisha Weeks, daughter of Opposition politician Michael Weeks, made the claim to Senio...
DATE: Aug 20, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
An MP’s daughter claimed in court yesterday that she was handcuffed and dragged along the floor to a police van after being “pepper sprayed” by officers on Front Street.
M’aeisha Weeks, daughter of Opposition politician Michael Weeks, told Senior Mag...
DATE: Aug 18, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Police have been asked by a group of concerned individuals to investigate the desecration of historic tombstones at Tucker’s Town.
Five people have jointly filed the complaint with the Bermuda Police Service and have been told, they say, that the mat...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A forensic science graduate is appealing to the Island’s philanthropists to lend him $35,000 towards his doctoral studies.
Bermudian Mark Amaral has won a coveted place on a PhD course in security science at the University College London but found ou...
DATE: Aug 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A doctor who had his head shaved to raise funds for a toddler with a rare heart condition has now collected more than $12,000 in donations.
Stephen West held the “Buzzed or Bald” fundraising event at his Wee Care surgery in Hamilton on Thursday in ai...
DATE: Aug 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Hamilton Alderman Carlton Simmons has blasted the city’s Mayor for failing to “take charge” of the controversy surrounding a plan to uproot trees on Ewing Street — a week after his mother staged a protest against City Hall.
Mr Simmons was off Island ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A young entrepreneur is hoping fans of the former Green Lantern restaurant will flock back to the venue as he launches a new takeout business there this week.
And Kemar Maybury, 33, is offering an incentive to get people to try out his “barbecue driv...
DATE: Aug 12, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A patients’ group says the tragic case of young mother Latifa Maybury, who died from cancer after the disease went undetected throughout her pregnancy, gives “cause for serious concern” about some of the processes used by King Edward VII Memorial Hos...
DATE: Aug 11, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
