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Bermuda must openly discuss HIV and AIDS in order to address the illness' true impact on the community, Allan Vincent Smith Foundation chairman Michael Fox has claimed.
Discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS is rampant, he said, but the st...
DATE: Jan 02, 2003
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Bermuda entered 2002 on a wave of uncertainty and anxiety as the reverberations of the September 11 terrorist attacks placed the Island's economy and sense of security on a delicate footing.
But by the end of the year, Bermuda had good reason to look...
DATE: Dec 31, 2002
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2002 was a year the construction industry will never forget. While the industry boomed, the Government was rocked with two of the biggest controversies in recent memory.
The Bermuda Housing Corporation
In March, the United Bermuda Party's Michael Dun...
DATE: Dec 31, 2002
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Disruptive students, rows over school uniforms, and questions over whether special needs students were having their needs met were some of the challenges the education system faced in 2002.
At the same time, there were improvements in school testing,...
DATE: Dec 31, 2002
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The closure of drug rehab centre Fair Havens will condemn women to prison while men get the chance to says use the Drug Court programme says Opposition Women's Affairs spokeswoman Kim Young.
Many people were deeply disappointed to hear Bermuda's only...
DATE: Dec 21, 2002
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The Botanical Gardens is set to get a host of exciting new additions such as a butterfly house and songbird aviary.
The new gardens management plan also calls for an education centre, children's discovery garden, agricultural museum, education centre...
DATE: Dec 20, 2002
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An unfair economic burden is being placed on some of Bermuda's children, according to children's advocate Sheelagh Cooper.
But Government says that if young children are being relied on to bring home the bacon, the situation should be reported and th...
DATE: Dec 18, 2002
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are planning to educate their children in Bermuda, according to a British newspaper.
The couple have a two-year-old son Dylan, and the Cardiff-based Western Mail newspaper quoted Zeta Jones, who is pregnant ag...
DATE: Dec 18, 2002
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At least 49 of Bermuda's children between the ages of 12 and 15 work 20 or more hours a week, according to the latest census.
Child labour statistics for the age group were gathered by the Census Office for the first time when the count took place in...
DATE: Dec 17, 2002
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Bermuda's population is much more educated today than it was in 1991 with 20 percent of residents now holding university degrees, according to the newly released census.
But the local education system is seriously split with three-quarters of white s...
DATE: Dec 14, 2002
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