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Premier Michael Dunkley has welcomed the news that Sun Life intends to expand jobs in Bermuda over the coming years.
Premier Dunkley met with the principal of the financial services firm yesterday after the company announced it was planning to more t...
DATE: Dec 20, 2014
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A record number of volunteers will be in boot camp this January after the Bermuda Regiment recruited 70 men and women in a major drive.
However, the number is below that required by the Regiment on an annual basis, according to the group Nine Colonel...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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The One Bermuda Alliance would win a snap general election but only just, according to the results of a new survey commissioned by The Royal Gazette.
Forty per cent of people polled by Global Research last month said they would vote for the ruling pa...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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Southampton MP Leah Scott has helped to raise $1,000 for pupils at Heron Bay Primary School.
Ms Scott worked with private donors to buy gift certificates from MarketPlace, Boyles, English Sports Shop and Gibbons as part of the Christmas charity drive...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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A leading law firm has donated $14,000 to seven charitable causes, as part of a 12-year commitment to support local organisations.
Money for the donations were raised by the Conyers Dill and Pearman Staff Benevolent Fund. The fund was set up in 2002 ...
DATE: Dec 18, 2014
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The Berkeley Institute has reported a 90 per cent pass rate for the IGCSE/GCSE exams.
More than 400 students sitting more than 800 exams in the last school year earned the results, which ranged from A* to G.
Berkeley — one of Bermuda’s two public se...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Rebecca Zuill
Eight schools have received $30,000 each thanks to a reinsurance firm’s successful “Dollars for Hours” initiative.
The PartnerRe Ltd scheme pairs student volunteers with local charities on community projects across the Island.
The money is expected t...
DATE: Dec 17, 2014
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Amendments to the Bermuda College Act have been passed in the Senate which include the provision for the college to borrow funds from government.
As a result of the amendment the Bermuda College Building Reserve Fund Act 1987 has been repealed.
Inde...
DATE: Dec 16, 2014
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Sarah Lagan
Legislation to introduce casino gaming to the Island was passed in the House of Assembly in the early hours of this morning.
The debate drew mixed reviews but was finally agreed upon with two mirno amendments at 1:45am after about ten hours of discus...
DATE: Dec 13, 2014
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A group of Bermudian students presented Environment Minister Jeanne Atherden with a mosaic yesterday as thanks for her continued consideration of the Blue Halo project.
The initiative, which proposes turning a large swath of the Island’s Exclusive Ec...
DATE: Dec 12, 2014
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