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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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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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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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The personal staff of former Premier Craig Cannonier are waiting to hear whether they still have jobs under the country’s new leader.
Chief of staff Dale Jackson, press secretary Charmaine Burgess and special advisor Don Grearson served at the “pleas...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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Cabinet ministers Mark Pettingill and Shawn Crockwell say they will not step down over Jetgate — despite fresh calls today from the Opposition for them to do so.
Opposition leader Marc Bean said in a statement earlier that Craig Cannonier, who resign...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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Firefighters are battling a blaze at a construction yard on Quarry Hill Road in Warwick following reports of an explosion in the area.
Three fire engines are at the scene and firefighters are hosing down the flames at the property — which includes a ...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley said today that the community would get answers on the Jetgate controversy which has plunged the One Bermuda Alliance into crisis and led to calls for Premier Craig Cannonier to resign.
Mr Dunkley was asked at a press ...
DATE: May 19, 2014
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A judge has ordered that almost $60,000 in damages be paid to a man who suffered “one of the most unpleasant experiences that a human can undergo” at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Father-of-two Kamal Williams was forced to wait more than ten hou...
DATE: May 15, 2014
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Vehicle emissions and other pollutants are partly to blame for falling amphibian numbers in Bermuda, according to an expert.
Jamie Bacon, a research associate with the Bermuda Zoological Society, told The Royal Gazette that emissions from cars, bikes...
DATE: May 14, 2014
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City Hall’s new task force on homelessness has met with Community Minister Wayne Scott to discuss plans for a “one stop shop” for those living rough on the Island.
Mr Scott was invited to join in a meeting with members last Wednesday, in what committ...
DATE: May 07, 2014
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