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The Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society is to hold its annual competition this month and the deadline for entrants is today.
The event is due to take place at the Jack King Building in the Botanical Gardens on February 19, 20 and 21 and will include tu...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Primary students got to “play dentist” as part of a fun and educational programme run by Kerin Oral Care.
As part of the practice’s Give Kids a Smile Day, the children learnt about oral hygiene and nutrition, and even got to dress up as dentists.
Eac...
DATE: Feb 06, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Pressure group Preserve Marriage Bermuda has urged the Bermuda Government to call a referendum on same-sex marriage.
About 70 representatives of the “active task force” held a press conference in the Office Suite Solutions building in Mill Creek yest...
DATE: Feb 05, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A special delegates’ conference to determine the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party could be on the cards as the required minimum number of branches have signed up in support.
It is also understood that 11 African Methodist Episcopal churches...
DATE: Feb 04, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Community leaders are planning a series of events to mark the 400th anniversary of the first people of colour to arrive and remain in Bermuda.
They want to recognise their great contributions to the island since the first “Indian and Negro” arrived a...
DATE: Feb 03, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An extension of the school registration deadline by the Ministry of Education leaves parents “none the wiser” as they have still not been given full access to a report on possible school closure and consolidation.
This is the view of Bermuda Union o...
DATE: Feb 02, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda SPCA is offering financial assistance to private cat owners to have their pet spayed or neutered as part of the organisation’s CatSnip programme.
The overpopulation of cats in Bermuda presents a problem according to the SPCA as there are...
DATE: Feb 01, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two new honorary fellows have been inducted into the Company of Honorary Fellows.
Cummings Zuill and Gary Phillips became Bermuda College’s latest inductees at ceremonies that took place on Saturday at the Coco Reefs Hotel and Resort.
Both were recog...
DATE: Feb 01, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Charities have been urged to consider the short-term pain of consolidation or mergers as they battle for survival in Bermuda’s harsh economy.
Caroline Foulger, chairwoman of Bermuda Business Development Agency, encouraged the third sector to follow t...
DATE: Jan 30, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A proposal has been submitted for a $3 million renovation at Horseshoe Bay that could create as many as 50 hospitality jobs for Bermudians in the run-up to the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup.
Beach Boys Ltd, which runs the “beach experience” out of Tob...
DATE: Jan 30, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan