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A new website, an open house and an empowering evening walk are three of the ways the Women's Resource Centre is marking international Domestic Violence Awareness Month during October.
The charity has coincided the launch of its revamped website with...
DATE: Oct 15, 2008
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Shoppers are buying less in local stores and spending more overseas, according to a Government report released yesterday.
The Retail Sales Index for August shows that the volume of retail sales fell by 2.6 percent while spending by residents abroad i...
DATE: Oct 15, 2008
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Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert yesterday accused Continental Airlines of "disrespect" over the way it has handled the axing of 13 jobs on the Island.
Mr. Furbert said at a press conference that the union would be encouraging its mem...
DATE: Oct 08, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton officially announced yesterday that US consultant Henry Johnson will act as the Island's new commissioner of education until his contract runs out next June.
Mr. Horton first revealed the news last month in response to...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert today accused Continental Airlines of “disrespect” over the way it handled the axing of 13 jobs on the Island.
Mr. Furbert said at a press conference that the union would be encouraging its members to ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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Teachers pledged last night to take no further action over the Ministry of Education's failure to give them a promised pay rise last month — after they were assured they would receive it by the end of October.
Hundreds of teachers attended a union me...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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The Cabinet Minister responsible for seniors is to meet with his Opposition counterpart after she claimed she forced him to act to help an alleged elder abuse victim.
Culture and Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler and Shadow Health and Senior...
DATE: Oct 07, 2008
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Opposition MP Louise Jackson last night called for urgent amendments to a new law aimed at tackling elder abuse, claiming seniors were still falling through the cracks.
The Shadow Minister for Health and Seniors said the latest alleged case of abuse ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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New Deputy Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva never meant to stick with the Bermuda Police Service.
He started out as a cadet in 1985 before heading to Bermuda College with every intention of pursuing a career in law.
But things don't always work ou...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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A 7.5 acre "virgin" plot has been donated to the Buy Back Bermuda campaign, which has lauded it as one of the largest gifts of land ever made to the Island.
Sharon Vesey officially handed over the untouched woodland site known as Skroggins Hill, in S...
DATE: Oct 06, 2008
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