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GRAB your feather boa and embrace your inner diva at this weekend's DIVA 4 Life event hosted by the island's diabetes awareness group.
DIVA 4 Life, which stands for Discipline, Involved, Visible and Active - is a community outreach programme focusing...
DATE: Oct 31, 2008
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NORMAN Vincent Peale, the famed cleric, author and self-actualisation advocate who literally wrote the book on The Power of Positive Thinking and led the cultural charge fot Americans to embrace that philosophy in the 1950s, once said: "The life of i...
DATE: Oct 31, 2008
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A lottery scheme in Turks and Caicos was deemed such a failure it was scrapped after two and a half years.
Less than a year before Bermuda launched a study into its own lottery potential, TCI withdrew from the Caribbean Lottery amid complaints that h...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Bermuda could tap into a market worth billions of dollars — but also enter an international legal row — by becoming an offshore host for online gambling.
The Island is currently assessing its suitability as a centre of Internet gaming, following a pa...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Frustrated trade unionists have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) asking it to intervene with Government to ensure they are consulted on the overhaul of the public education system.
Anthony Wolffe, president of Bermuda Trades Uni...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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School House Nursery students are learning about less fortunate children in Zambia and how to appreciate what they have.
Teacher Katie Adams is organising a container to be sent to an orphanage in Zambia which is supported by two Bermuda residents, C...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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Passionate views were aired during a public meeting on controversial proposals to rename St. David's Primary School in honour of former principal Hilton C. Richardson.
Some Islanders have argued that the current name is an intrinsic part of St. David...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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Any Caribbean island with good access to the United States could boast an American-style casino to rival Atlantis Paradise Island, according to an expert from the Innovation Group.
For some governments in the region, gambling's ability to attract tou...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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A Bermuda College professor's recent study on students learning styles has gained worldwide attention and will be presented in an upcoming conference.
Dr. Ameenah Ahad, coordinator of External Programmes at the College, will present her research to d...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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A 14-year-old Berkeley Institute student was sent to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH) by three of his schoolmates, who attacked him Saturday morning as he walked outside the senior school.
The Royal Gazette understands all four students had b...
DATE: Oct 28, 2008
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