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BASE is pleased to share that it was recently able to make donations to students and families with Autism and other sensory challenges who attended Camp Pawpaw this summer.
Fourteen students were each given a gift bag filled with a variety of sensor...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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Press Release
A fresh call for the public, businesses and the Government to back non-profit organisations was made yesterday as they battle the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Bermuda Foundation warned in a report that the charitable sector was “lar...
DATE: Aug 05, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Trevor Moniz was candid about his maverick, sometimes gadfly status yesterday, as the Opposition MP for Smith’s West announced his retirement from politics.
Mr Moniz described himself as a reluctant politician when he started out in the United Bermud...
DATE: Aug 04, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
David Burt praised one of his Cabinet members for addressing long-running problems that had plagued his ministry.
The Premier said the Minister of Public Works, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, had “inherited a ministry that was debilitated in many ar...
DATE: Aug 03, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A combination of home clear-outs and redecorations may have been a boost to a new shop set up to raise funds for charity.
Barbara Belton-Brown, a board member at Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, which opened its ReStore last month, said that the vent...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Tawana Tannock told scholarship recipients that international business rescued her university education, helping her to have the successful career that has followed.
Speaking at the Association of Bermuda International Companies Education Awards cere...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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A sign to mark Mary Prince Emancipation Park was unveiled in honour of the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, said that publ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda College has no long-term debt, the Minister of Education told MPs.
The news came as Diallo Rabain presented the 2018 and 2019 financial statements for the college on Friday.
Bermuda College had assets in excess of $23.86m and total liabiliti...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Legislation to allow cannabis convictions to be removed from the record was approved in the House of Assembly on Friday.
But Ministers warned that the amendments would probably not remove Bermudians from the United States “stop list”, which makes it ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Borrowers are to get greater protections, with rules governing lenders set to be toughened.
Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, described examples of how struggling borrowers had fallen foul of questionable lending practices amid a lack of regul...
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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Politics
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