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An African studies programme for children which was axed by the Ministry of Education five years ago is making an independent comeback this summer.
Ashay: Rites of Passage, created by award-winning poet Mwalimu [master teacher] Melodye Micere Van Put...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Bermuda Housing Corporation is renting out rooms for as little as $650 a month to foreign employees of a private security company.
The publicly-funded quango, which has a waiting list of more than 200 Bermudians seeking affordable housing, admitted t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2014
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Union leaders are deciding whether to take further industrial action over the sacking of a hospital worker accused of attacking his female supervisor.
Unionised staff at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital walked off the job on May 21 after the man was...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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Budget
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A renowned scientist leading a study on Bermuda’s water quality has been killed in a landslide on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Quebec medical researcher Éric Dewailly, 59, was one of two people who died on Tuesday when a cliff above them colla...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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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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Health
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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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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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