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A private school is to scan the fingerprints of hundreds of secondary students in order for them to be able to get hot lunches and take out library books.
Warwick Academy confirmed yesterday it was introducing the “totally voluntary” system this term...
DATE: Jan 09, 2016
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Hospital authorities have revealed information about 13 adverse events in the past five years which, in some cases, led to the death or permanent injury of patients.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board disclosed the information in response to a public access...
DATE: Jan 04, 2016
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The Bermuda Government remains reluctant to penalise senior civil servants who break financial rules, according to Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews.
Mrs Matthews answered with an emphatic e-mailed “Yes!” when asked by The Royal Gazette yesterd...
DATE: Nov 19, 2015
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Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention.
Ms...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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Public authorities will be encouraged to take a very “user-friendly” approach when it comes to public access to information (Pati) requests, a meeting heard last night.
Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez said some authorities were insisting...
DATE: Sep 29, 2015
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Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...
DATE: Sep 28, 2015
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A physician is to launch what he believes is the first medical school scholarship in Bermuda.
JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund.
“I didn’t come...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015
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A physician is to launch a medical school scholarship for Bermudian students.
JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund.
“I didn’t come from a rich fam...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015
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The One Bermuda Alliance would win a snap general election but only just, according to the results of a new survey commissioned by The Royal Gazette.
Forty per cent of people polled by Global Research last month said they would vote for the ruling pa...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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Bermuda’s complex history, as well as its immense beauty, has inspired a writer to produce her first book of poetry.
Wendy Fulton Steginsky, who grew up on the Island and regularly returns here to visit family, will launch The Tide of Bermuda’s Light...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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