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Charity Saving Children and Revealing Secrets will be hosting its second tag day this month as it marks child abuse prevention month.
The funds raised will go to providing the knowledge, skills and resources needed to protect and prevent children fr...
DATE: Apr 12, 2016
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Cash-strapped citizens have withdrawn more than $17 million from their workplace pensions since the rules on accessing retirement savings were relaxed.
Hundreds of people have tapped into their pension pots to pay for rent, school fees, mortgages and...
DATE: Apr 12, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda’s public primary schools fell below international averages in the results of the most recent Cambridge Primary Checkpoint results.
The figures, which date back to May of 2015, show Bermuda lagging behind in English, math and science compared ...
DATE: Apr 12, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Commissioners grappled at length with the controversial decision to grant charity status to Preserve Marriage on a one-year probationary basis, The Royal Gazette has learnt.
The group, which opposes same-sex marriage, was approved by the Charities Co...
DATE: Apr 11, 2016
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Erma Butterfield was a brilliant dancer and an icon of Bermuda in her heyday.
The mother of two, who was described as “a ray of sunshine”, has died at the age of 87.
“From what I can gather, dancing was her life,” her daughter, Renee Lawrence, said. ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
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The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families is hosting its Annual General Membership meeting next week.
Minister of Community, Culture, and Sport Patricia Gordon Pamplin is expected to make a representation along with two of Bermuda’s young...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
The group advocating against same-sex unions, Preserve Marriage Bermuda, has been granted charitable status by the Registrar General having passed “the public benefit test”.
The confirmation letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs, seen by this ne...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
A new parenting initiative aims to “transform the face of fatherhood in Bermuda”, beginning with a pancake breakfast this morning.
The All Pro Dad Bermuda launch event, taking place from 9.30am at the Fairmont Southampton hotel, will offer a bonding...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
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A fresh chapter has begun for the Human Rights Commission in its new headquarters, where the latest set of commissioners held its first meeting.
Tawana Tannock, the HRC chairwoman, praised the work of the selection committee in bringing together comm...
DATE: Apr 08, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
Objections have been made about Preserve Marriage’s application to become a charity — though the Bermuda Government will not say how many.
The pressure group, which is opposed to same-sex couples being allowed to wed in Bermuda, is still waiting to h...
DATE: Apr 07, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways