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An American oncologist hired two years ago to lead Bermuda Hospitals Board’s cancer services is to exit the Island in September and is currently on sick leave, leaving only part-time doctors to cover his absence.
The departure of Paul Coty from King ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Five years after they were secretly smuggled into Bermuda a group of Uighurs are still no closer to being able to leave.
On the anniversary of their arrival from Guantánamo Bay, the four former detainees have no passports, and the governments of the ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s Uighurs deserve the “basic human right” to travel and the public should write to the Premier asking that they be given it, according to Amnesty International.
Suzanne Wilson, executive director of the local branch of the human rights charit...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Environmentalists claim a recent fire at a yard in Warwick has highlighted health risks allegedly faced by residents living near the industrial site.
Stuart Hayward, from Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce (BEST), said the blaze at Dy...
DATE: Jun 10, 2014
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Bermuda’s famous cahows have 50 new purpose-built homes ready and waiting for them on Nonsuch Island.
The artificial nest boxes were designed by former conservation officer David Wingate and donated to the Cahow Recovery Project by Bermuda Audubon So...
DATE: Jun 10, 2014
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New Premier Michael Dunkley pledged yesterday to rebuild the public’s confidence in his party after he was sworn into office at Government House.
The National Security Minister said he believed the electorate still trusted the One Bermuda Alliance af...
DATE: May 21, 2014
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Families who claim Bermuda Medical Council is preventing them from having safe home births are continuing their protests today at the Ministry of Health.
Expectant parents and their supporters are taking it in turns to request meetings with Health pe...
DATE: May 21, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Employers’ Council is to put extra effort into tackling sexual harassment after a poll revealed that a quarter of women and 18 percent of men have suffered it at work.
The survey, conducted by Global Research, asked 400 residents during telep...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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A group of parents claim they are being prevented from having home births because of Bermuda Medical Council’s misinterpretation of a 65-year-old law.
The parents issued a press statement yesterday claiming they’d had the “rug pulled out from under t...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
Children as young as three are taking part in substance abuse prevention programmes.
Joanne Dean, from the Department of National Drug Control (DNDC), said the programmes started in preschool and were aimed at steering youngsters away from making the...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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