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Small businesses are being urged to thrive on the unprecedented opportunities afforded by the America’s Cup.
While big budgets may be required to become major official sponsors of the sailing spectacle, business leaders are encouraging groups such as...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
The Island’s top students were celebrated last night at a packed auditorium for the Commissioner’s Vision Awards, a police initiative for each of Bermuda’s schools.
“Be honest about everything you do and say, be positive no matter what the circumstan...
DATE: Oct 13, 2015
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Jonathan Bell
The emphasis was on “freedom of choice” at Bermuda’s first International Day of the Girl event yesterday.
Females were invited to choose from multiple activities at the free event held at the National Stadium.
The day, first declared by the UN in 201...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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It has been a tough but incredible recovery for young Leighnae Lowe, who was 6 when doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta discovered a tumour in a critical area of her brain.
After an uncommon and potentially risky operation, Leighnae is flouri...
DATE: Oct 12, 2015
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Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention.
Ms...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
More than 20 members of the community were trained at the weekend to become facilitators of a sexual-abuse prevention training programme.
Police officers, corrections officers, members of the church community and representatives from schools were a...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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Everyone has heard about the America’s Cup village in Dockyard and the festivities on Front Street ahead of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Bermuda, but St George’s is where celebrations will begin.
Bermuda’s maritime heritage will be o...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Early education and awareness is key to protecting children from sexual abuse, according to Family Centre’s executive director.
Martha Dismont said treatment of convicted offenders was the next most important step to reduce reoffending.
However, the...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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A pair of Saltus Grammar School students has started building wooden replica models of the catamarans that will be used in the 35th America’s Cup.
Aiden Young and Jamie Sanders, who are both in secondary year two, have completed the hulls of an AC4...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Bermuda College has formed a new partnership with Savannah College of Art and Design that will “open the door of opportunity”.
Students of the arts and science division can now take classes that will count toward admission into several SCAD baccalaur...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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