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A pre-school breakfast scheme which was in danger of folding has been saved thanks to the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
The charity has stepped in with sponsorship to ensure the programme, run by the Feed the Children Ministries of the th...
DATE: Dec 24, 2013
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A black pit bull terrier is still on the loose after biting a man yesterday in what police say was an “unprovoked attack”.
The dog attacked the 41-year-old man outside a home on Mission Lane, Pembroke, and then ran off.
A Bermuda Police Service spok...
DATE: Dec 23, 2013
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A woman was taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a kitchen fire at a Warwick home today.
Bermuda Fire Service responded to reports of smoke coming from the property on Ord Road at about 9.15am. One fire engine staffed with four firefig...
DATE: Dec 23, 2013
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The Department of Planning has halved the length of time it takes to process planning applications, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy.
He told the Senate this morning that the average time taken to process an application fell from 12.7 ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2013
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Road crashes have killed 144 people on Bermuda’s roads since 2000 but policymakers lack the will to tackle the problem, according to CADA executive director Anthony Santucci.
The anti-drink driving campaigner pointed out that the Island had averaged ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2013
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Opposition MP Wayne Furbert claimed today that Bermuda Tourism Authority chairman David Dodwell had become the “de facto Tourism Minister, setting the agenda with apparently no oversight and no accountability”.
And the Shadow Tourism Minister critici...
DATE: Dec 10, 2013
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Bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown died after being given an unnecessary transfusion of the wrong blood type at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, according to his brother-in-law.
And yesterday Danis Moore criticised Bermuda Hospitals Board for hiring la...
DATE: Dec 05, 2013
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Hospital bosses are trying to stop an inquest being held into the death of bar owner Hubert (Hubie) Brown.
Mr Brown, who ran Hubie’s bar and jazz club on Angle Street, died aged 66 in December 2002 at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Senior Coroner...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013
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Senior Coroner Archibald Warner has defended his decision to hold just four inquests into sudden deaths in the last six years, insisting that no more were necessary.
And he told The Royal Gazette he had received no complaints from families about the ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2013
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Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley insisted yesterday he was not dragging his feet on whether an inquiry should be held into historic complaints of sexual misconduct in the Bermuda Regiment.
The Public Safety Minister, who repeatedly called for an indepe...
DATE: Nov 28, 2013
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