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The types of drugs that young people consume in Bermuda is directly linked to exposure they have via home or community life, gang involvement, or through drug dealing.
This is according to Camily Lovell, an internationally certified alcohol and drug ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Elliot School Alumni Association has given educational awards to seven recipients.
A ceremony was held at the Christ Anglican Church in Devonshire last Thursday.
This year's recipients were presented with their scholarships by trustee Leon Simm...
DATE: Jul 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Pembroke residents have urged the Government to stick by its guns after it put pressure on Belco to reduce emissions from its North Power Station.
The Opposition said that the Government must legislate comprehensive remediation programmes for affect...
DATE: Jul 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Balancing commercial interests with environmental sustainability is the topic of a virtual talk taking place today.
Lanya Fanovich is a senior ecologist at the Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville in Trinidad and Tobago. The institute work...
DATE: Jul 23, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Seniors will receive a 2.75 per cent increase in their contributory pension payments under an order passed in the Senate yesterday.
The Contributory Pensions (Amendment of Benefits) Order 2022 was debated and approved with no objections.
However...
DATE: Jul 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Young people will be showing off their pedal bike tricks as part of a new competition being launched in Dockyard on Saturday.
The Pop-A-Wheelie Competition is the brainchild of Kendrick Zuill and Shawn Simmons, aka Mr Fotogenick, who both felt that ...
DATE: Jul 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Emergency laws designed to crack down rapidly on crime will be made permanent after legislation was passed by senators yesterday.
In reading the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2022, Ernest Peets, the Government Senate Leader and spokesman for the Minis...
DATE: Jul 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Numerous senators weighed in on the debate about the Government’s proposal to extend Covid-19 public heath emergency measures.
The regulations, which make the wearing of masks mandatory in certain places such as health facilities and on public transp...
DATE: Jul 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Senators have approved legislation that will see quarantine exemptions for members of certain armed forces removed.
The Quarantine Amendment Bill 2022 seeks to amend the Quarantine Act 2017 to make provisions for the Quarantine Authority to make eme...
DATE: Jul 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A community gardening instructor whose students have been targeted by crop thieves has called on Bermuda “to look at itself”.
Kevin Santucci, a chaplain, who runs the Grow, Eat, Save programme designed to help amateur gardeners to become more self-su...
DATE: Jul 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan