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Secret shoppers will be sent through Customs as Government aims to improve weak customer service at the airport.
A review has highlighted failings in the way people are passed through LF Wade International Airport, National Security Minister Wayne Pe...
DATE: Aug 14, 2012
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Tim Smith
The atrocity of rampant ageism has failed to get the attention it deserves during debate over the Equality Act, former Attorney General Phil Perinchief has claimed.
Companies forcing people to retire at 65 — casting them on the “dung heap of humanity...
DATE: Jul 23, 2012
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Politics
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Tim Smith
The fight to reclaim communities threatened by gang violence needs a common touch, according to campaigners at an emergency conference yesterday.
Imagine Bermuda, Spanish Town and other community and church groups held a brainstorming session at Berm...
DATE: Jul 21, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
MPs will today debate plans to give Bermuda Monetary Authority power to impose penalties of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
BMA will also be able to censure an institution publicly, and ban it from providing certain services or publish information,...
DATE: Jul 20, 2012
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Politics
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Tim Smith
Bermuda’s violence problems will continue to escalate until people learn to deal with emotional trauma, Family Centre executive director Martha Dismont told a public meeting last night.
Ms Dismont urged families to find a way of talking about experie...
DATE: Jul 20, 2012
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Tim Smith
Public Works Minister Michael Weeks pleaded with people to properly dispose of their waste as he reminded them of punishments for illegal dumping.
Mr Weeks held a press conference at Aeolia Drive in Devonshire to complain about the frequent discardin...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A vessel bound for Turkey diverted to Bermuda last night, to offload a sick crew member.
The 25-year-old Filipino, who was aboard the bulk carrier Amfialos, was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment for an infection.
The ship, head...
DATE: Jul 19, 2012
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Tim Smith
Environmentalists BEST backed calls for a policy unit on housing, but raised doubts over claims of soaring prices.
Meanwhile the One Bermuda Alliance weighed into the debate by urging Government to find ways of letting homeless people make use of the...
DATE: Jul 18, 2012
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Tim Smith
The Seventh-day Adventist Church yesterday declared its abhorrence for homophobia — but said gay people were meant to be “summoned to a struggle”.
Reacting to Government’s plans to protect homosexuals from discrimination under an Equality Act, the Ch...
DATE: Jul 18, 2012
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Tim Smith
Bermuda Hospitals Board staff are visiting a number of overseas hospitals to pick up tips as they continue to oversee the redevelopment of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Media reports in the UK say health teams from Bermuda were recently at t...
DATE: Jul 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
