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Recognising that many young people are not making conscious health and wellness decisions, Generation Next founder and chairman Eron Hill said the organisation will be launching a “bespoke health and wellness awareness programme for young Bermudians”...
DATE: Jan 11, 2019
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A teenage girl who died suddenly this week has had an online fundraising page set up in her memory by a cousin who lives overseas.
Kiara Paiva, who was 15, was found unconscious in her Hamilton Parish home on Monday and later pronounced dead by docto...
DATE: Jan 11, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda will become a global hub for new digital industries, a blockchain pioneer predicted yesterday.
Bruce Silcoff, the chief executive of Shyft, said yesterday the island could be a leader in a “fourth industrial revolution”.
Shyft signed a memora...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
Berkeley Institute pupils have been given counselling after the death of 15-year-old schoolmate Kiara Paiva, it was revealed yesterday.
The Berkeley Board of Governors added the school’s flag was flown at half-mast in the wake of the sudden death of ...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A gay rights campaigner welcomed a call for LGBTQ people to get involved in the battle against gang violence.
Adrian Hartnett-Beasley, deputy chairman of pressure group OutBermuda, said he was pleased that Wayne Caines, the national security minister...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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Crime
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Bermuda’s former prison is to be reborn as a history research centre, the executive director of the National Museum of Bermuda said yesterday.
Elena Strong said the Casemates buildings in Dockyard would be used to focus on “the Atlantic World from 14...
DATE: Jan 09, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions.
Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Primary school pupils are prepared to avoid getting tangled up in gang culture after a six-week course designed to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence.
Ten students at Prospect Primary School in Pembroke, aged 10 or 11, completed the Gang Resist...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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Crime
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Conservationists hope lionfish will be back on the menu this winter as the fifth annual Winter Lionfish Derby picks up steam.
As of Monday afternoon more than 180 lionfish had already been caught as part of this year’s derby.
A spokesman said: “It se...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dozens of new signs have gone up at Dockyard – telling visitors the names of a huge variety of plants.
The signs, which give the Latin and English names, were the idea of West End Development Corporation’s landscape staff who undertook the project ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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