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Further details of ministers’ travel costs have been revealed on the Government’s new expenses website.
Health Minister Jeanne Atherden’s recent trip to the United States for the First Joint Meeting of the Signatories to the Hamilton Declaration and ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2014
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Bermuda’s food, culture and heritage are high on the agenda for tourism attractions over the winter months.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority presented its Uncovering the Arts schedule at Fort Hamilton yesterday before members of the arts and tourism com...
DATE: Nov 04, 2014
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Sarah Lagan
A funeral home has led fresh calls for a crematorium to be established in Bermuda owing to the increased demand for cremations.
Amis Memorial Chapel has acknowledged a significant rise in the number of requests for cremations by people in Bermuda.
An...
DATE: Nov 03, 2014
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Dr Grant Gibbons, the Minister of Education and Economic Development, has declined to comment on a claim that Bermuda has offered “financial incentives” to bring the America’s Cup to the Island.
Bermuda is locked in a battle with San Diego to decide ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2014
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Adrian Robson
“Be the change you want to see in Bermuda and help to build a better future for our children.”
This is the inspiring message of a hard-hitting campaign being launched today by Family Centre.
The charity hopes the “Change Starts With Me” initiative wi...
DATE: Nov 03, 2014
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Shadow Minister of Education Lovitta Foggo has reiterated calls to dismantle the middle school system following recent academic results.
However Education Minister Grant Gibbons has refuted a suggestion by Ms Foggo that the Hopkins Report recommended...
DATE: Nov 03, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Hospitals Board turns the spotlight on ethics this week as the organisation’s staff focuses on the rights of patients to make informed decisions about their care.
From today to Saturday, medical ethics expert Dr Christy Simpson, head of t...
DATE: Nov 03, 2014
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The 2014 graduates of the Island’s public schools have risen in numbers: up ten from last year’s 217, with 216 for the previous year and 210 in 2011.
At 88 per cent from those who began at S1, it is the same rate as last year — but an improvement on ...
DATE: Oct 31, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda needs to build an education system that includes all children, a world-renowned expert on special needs teaching said yesterday.
Dr Ashleigh Molloy — whose PhD focused on diversity, disability and special needs — added that integrated schooli...
DATE: Oct 27, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
After years of struggling unsuccessfully to get back to work, 23-year-old mother Ciara Martin finds herself “caught between a rock and a hard place” as a result of her chronic diabetes.
Although Ms Martin said she has been able to qualify for Financi...
DATE: Oct 23, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell