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Lawyer Tim Marshall last night hit back at "laughable" claims from the Attorney General that he is a beneficiary of a system unfairly favouring whites.
Mr. Marshall told The Royal Gazette his family had faced numerous hurdles on the Island because of...
DATE: Oct 13, 2007
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Bermuda's Constitution would be violated by a proposed new law forcing companies to hire and promote blacks, according to lawyer Tim Marshall.
Fining companies $50,000 for blocking the progress of blacks would be discriminative — and therefore ruled ...
DATE: Oct 03, 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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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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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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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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Public school teachers will be paid in line with public service workers, Bermuda Union of Teachers president Lisa Trott revealed last night.
From 2008-09, their pay will be linked "as close as mathematically possible" to Bermuda Public Service Union....
DATE: Sep 06, 2007
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Acting Premier Paula Cox yesterday called for Bermuda's community to stamp out the criminal element and demanded to know: "Why are some of us killing each other?"
In a passionate Labour Day speech before hundreds of people at Bernard Park, Ms Cox urg...
DATE: Sep 04, 2007
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Bermuda's resources on the history of slavery have received some welcome additions from the new International Slavery Museum in the UK.
Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler bought a series of books and documents on the subject on his visit to t...
DATE: Aug 29, 2007
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