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A dedicated diabetes centre has opened as health bosses attempt to get to grips with growing numbers of patients suffering the disease.
People can get their blood sugar tested and pick up supplies of insulin and syringes at the Diabetes Resource Cent...
DATE: Sep 27, 2007
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Education Minister Randolph Horton yesterday announced plans to step up physical activity in schools as the Island fights back against startling obesity figures.
Mr. Horton, a former physical education teacher, told The Royal Gazette he would push fo...
DATE: Sep 26, 2007
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Numbers of tourists flying to Bermuda decreased this summer, according to a new survey by the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
However, the study reveals visitors to the Island are slightly up for 2007 as a whole, largely because of a surge in the fir...
DATE: Sep 25, 2007
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Eight teenagers will tonight go head to head in a battle to be named Bermuda's Youth Tourism Minister.
The youngsters have fought off competition from dozens of entrants who threw their hats into the ring for the prestigious role.
In tonight's final ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2007
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Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley last night called for more sports to be built into the school day to tackle the Island's ballooning obesity epidemic.
Mr. Dunkley said healthy eating and nutrition should also be increased in the school curriculum an...
DATE: Sep 24, 2007
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Worshippers marched through St. George's as preparations continue for the 400th anniversary of Christianity in Bermuda.
Anglicans walked from the Deliverance replica on Ordnance Island to St. Peter's Church for an Evensong service to officially launc...
DATE: Sep 24, 2007
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The Ministry of Health has launched an internal investigation into the death of Sylvia Richardson Care Facility resident Vernon Martin.
Mr. Martin, 65, from St. George's, sustained head and spine injuries when he fell from a balcony at the St. George...
DATE: Sep 22, 2007
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An obesity expert last night branded Bermuda's schools system "a disgrace" for not dedicating more of children's time to physical activity. Jane DeVille-Almond, of the UK's National Obesity Forum, said schoolchildren were only made to do 100 minutes ...
DATE: Sep 22, 2007
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A business leader has expressed concern after Premier Ewart Brown announced expats will be made to train their own replacements in order to get work permits.
Under Government's Goodwill Plus initiative, experienced foreign workers will be told the le...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Government has pledged $20,000 to help ship a Middle Passage monument to Bermuda.
The statue — a tribute to millions of slaves who died crossing the ocean during the Transatlantic Slave Trade — is expected to be brought to the Island in the next few ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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