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Premier Ewart Brown called on Caribbean leaders to tackle "frightening" obesity levels threatening to jeopardise the regional economy.
The Premier warned countries could end up facing spiralling costs treating diseases brought on by poor lifestyles i...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Staff from an advertising agency are taking time off work to take part in a programme helping troubled teenagers.
Workers from Aardvark Communications will be giving up 50 hours of service between them to the Mirrors project, which aims to change the...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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People must book appointments on-line for services at the US Consulate General in a move to cut waiting times.
Citizenship inquiries, passport renewals for minors, visa services and notarials must be booked via the website from October 1, US Consul M...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Employees should be drug tested to root out a culture of substance abuse plaguing workforces, campaigners told a public conference yesterday.
About 80 percent of Bermuda's chemically dependent people have jobs, according to Chris Backeberg of testing...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A tourist last night told how passengers screamed as they were thrown off their seats and banged their heads against metal railings when their ferry crashed at Dockyard.
American mother-of-two Jackie Musto said she saw one man lose his teeth while ot...
DATE: Sep 18, 2007
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A fat-fighting campaigner from England has flown into Bermuda to help tackle alarming obesity rates.
Jane DeVille-Almond, a director of the UK's National Obesity Forum, is on the Island for a series of workshops launched yesterday as part of Governme...
DATE: Sep 18, 2007
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Young children tipping the scales at 300 pounds are risking death from diabetes in their early adult years, a leading nurse has warned.
Between 20 and 25 children aged ten to 20 have been diagnosed with Type Two diabetes as a result of too much junk ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2007
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Burglaries on homes are more rife than at any point this century, new crime figures show.
Police recorded 213 residential burglaries in April, May and June, a rise of six percent on the same period in 2006 — the fourth consecutive year in which the n...
DATE: Sep 15, 2007
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A community group is preparing for a trip to St. Croix to see the Middle Passage monument which will hopefully be brought to Bermuda next month.
The visit comes as Cultural Affairs Minister Wayne Perinchief gives his backing to the statue, which will...
DATE: Sep 14, 2007
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Bermuda was last night reeling from Tiger Woods' withdrawal from next month's PGA Grand Slam of Golf.
Woods — regarded by many as the world's number one sports star — announced yesterday he would skip the Mid Ocean Club event to spend more time with ...
DATE: Sep 13, 2007
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