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Bermuda will host the 2012 Corporate Games, Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert announced today.
The multi-sport event, in which athletes of all abilities compete representing their company, is hoped to bring between 500 to 750 participants to the Island....
DATE: Nov 16, 2011
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Whistle-blower LeYoni Junos is vowing to fight the bank she says is trying to kick her out of her home.
Ms Junos, who went through a high-profile legal battle after being sacked from the Department of Tourism in 2008, says HSBC Bermuda sent officials...
DATE: Nov 16, 2011
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Community activist Raymond Russell yesterday called for more information on how Bermuda Industrial Union’s cash in the bank plummeted from more than $1.5 million to $75,000 in five years.
Mr Russell, a long-time critic of the BIU, also questioned wha...
DATE: Nov 16, 2011
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Bermuda Industrial Union’s assets have fallen to just over $8 million, according to its most up-to-date audited financial statement.
The BIU had $8.11 million in assets, including about $75,000 cash in the bank, at the end of 2008/9. Two years previo...
DATE: Nov 15, 2011
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Wealthy people should expect to do the humane thing and pay more for their healthcare, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
The Minister suggested richer people will face higher premiums as Government searches for a way to ensure those on the p...
DATE: Nov 10, 2011
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Health
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Tim Smith
Police will have a visible presence in Warwick from today following a series of serious incidents.
The police mobile command vehicle, manned by community action team officers, will be at the junction of Middle Road and Khyber Pass 11am to 7pm.
Office...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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Crime
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Tim Smith
Twenty out of 21 primary and middle public school teachers gained a Cambridge International Certificate after taking a course this summer.
The 14- to 16- week scheme encourages teachers to refresh their approach to teaching and learning and continue ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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Education
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Tim Smith
Anti-conscription campaigners are vowing to head to London’s Privy Council again after losing their latest battle in Bermuda’s Court of Appeal.
“We are very dejected, but we are undeterred,” Bermudians Against the Draft founder Larry Marshall told Th...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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The goal of healthy people in healthy communities is now hammered home in a mission statement for Bermuda’s National Health Plan.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva yesterday said the mission statement, added to the plan following a period of public consul...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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Health
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Tim Smith
Anti-conscription campaigners will continue protesting through the courts despite Premier Paula Cox’s pledge to introduce an alternative national service.
Bermudians Against the Draft yesterday gave a cautious welcome to Ms Cox’s Throne Speech promis...
DATE: Nov 08, 2011
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Court
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Tim Smith