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The red carpet was rolled out in style for Bermuda's hospitality industry workers over the weekend at "Bermuda's Oscars", the Visitor Industry Partnership (VIP) Excellence Awards.
Nineteen winners and 54 nominees were celebrated at the black-tie even...
DATE: Mar 21, 2005
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Acting Health Minister Walter Lister has cited tobacco use as the number one killer in Bermuda. He said that smoking related deaths exceed the combined total of those due to suicide, AIDS, road traffic accidents and homicide.
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DATE: Mar 21, 2005
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Asthma is a huge problem in Bermuda affecting around one in four pre-schoolers, one in six older children and one in ten adults.
The incidence of asthma is rising and has been reaching epidemic levels as in other developed countries around the world....
DATE: Mar 18, 2005
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The Bermuda Independence Commission public meetings will start next week, with the first one scheduled on Thursday, March 24 at the Warwick Workman's Club.
The commission will be taking written and oral submissions at the meeting. Yesterday chairman ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2005
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The roof is complete, the lighting is improved, and 180 people ? including many former Pro-Active workers ? are working hard at the second senior school construction site on Berkeley Road, Government announced yesterday.
Meanwhile arbitration between...
DATE: Mar 17, 2005
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One of the greatest challenges facing Bermuda's youth is that many of them lack employable skills and without such, their options are limited and some get caught up in a lifestyle of behaviours that invariably lead them before the courts.
Bermuda Col...
DATE: Mar 16, 2005
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The ?grand-daddy? of all PLP schizophrenia is the party?s attitude towards selling Bermudian assets to foreigners, Opposition Senator Bob Richards said yesterday.
As the Budget debate kicked off in the Senate yesterday morning, Sen. Richards also sai...
DATE: Mar 15, 2005
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Shadow Works and Engineering Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has vowed to continue pressing Government on how Coco Reef Resort was given the opportunity to renegotiate its lease during the original bidding process ? to the disadvantage of other bidd...
DATE: Mar 15, 2005
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Cooper?s Island will be restored as a natural haven for locals and visitors to enjoy, Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield said during the Budget debate in the House of Assembly on Friday.
?During 2004, the Department of Planning worked extensive...
DATE: Mar 14, 2005
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Over 45 percent of all students eligible to attend public schools in Bermuda are currently attending private or alternative schools ? the highest percentage of children not attending public schools in the world.
It?s also estimated that public educat...
DATE: Mar 14, 2005
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