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The chairman of the Board of Governors at the Berkeley Institute has stepped down after 15 years in the position. Calvin White graduated from Berkeley Institute in 1968 and is described as being hard working and passionate about the school. His resig...
DATE: Nov 24, 2009
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Bermuda is facing an "unprecedented" level of crime and needs to wake up before the situation gets worse, according to Senator Marc Bean.
Speaking during the Throne Speech debate yesterday afternoon, Sen. Bean spoke about the rising levels of violenc...
DATE: Nov 24, 2009
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Prisoners facing a stretch in Westgate are swallowing drugs before being incarcerated to ensure they have an initial supply, Home Affairs Minister David Burch said yesterday.
He told the Senate that steps were being taken to address the trend by the ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2009
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Children aged 24 to 30 months will be able to take part in free development screenings offered by the Child Development Programme.
On Friday, Education Minster El James told the House of Assembly that the screenings, which were promised in this year'...
DATE: Nov 23, 2009
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During the debate on the Health Insurance Amendment (No. 2) Act 2009 in the House of Assembly yesterday, Health Minister Walter Roban said FutureCare could be delivered at a cost of $39 million for about 3,100 beneficiaries, based on actuarial report...
DATE: Nov 21, 2009
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A drunken teenager who bombarded a Police officer with racial abuse lost his appeal against his sentence of probation yesterday.
Michael Coles Diel pleaded guilty to using offensive words, violently resisting arrest and refusing to give a breath test...
DATE: Nov 21, 2009
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A controversial but celebrated educator and author whose school has a zero percent dropout rate will be coming to Bermuda as a guest speaker.
Steve Perry started and runs the Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut.
The high scho...
DATE: Nov 20, 2009
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Berkeley Institute Board of Governors has not approved a sniffer dog being integrated into the school beginning in December.
A story in yesterday's Bermuda Sun reported Dog X, a German Shepherd, would monitor the classrooms and hallways and conduct r...
DATE: Nov 19, 2009
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It kills more men than prostate cancer and more women than breast cancer — but many people with chronic obtrusive pulmonary disease (COPD) don't even realise that they have it.
Now, the Bermuda Hospitals Board is joining in the fight against the dise...
DATE: Nov 18, 2009
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When Gaynette Holder applied for a job with We Care home help agency in 2005, there was nothing to suggest to her prospective employers that she was anything other than a normal middle-aged mother looking for work.
The 47-year-old had a clean crimina...
DATE: Nov 18, 2009
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