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A host of the Island’s young people were honoured on the weekend as part of Teen Service’s Outstanding Teen Awards.
Warwick Academy student Lindsay Fisher took home the grand prize, winning the 2014 Overall Outstanding Teen Award, but she was just on...
DATE: Mar 10, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new guidebook book to help identify children at risk from potential health and well-being problems has been launched in Bermuda.
The Child Development Programme (CDP) has spent the last two years getting the Red Flags Guidebook approved and into pr...
DATE: Mar 08, 2014
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Health
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Gareth Finighan
The Centre on Philanthropy is welcoming new legislation recently tabled to replace the “outdated” Charities Act 1978.
Executive director Elaine Williams said yesterday: “The new Act is a vital part of the charitable sector’s management and accountabi...
DATE: Mar 08, 2014
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Belco has put forward a change to its facilities charge that would cut electricity bills for nearly half of its residential customers — but more than one in four households would end up paying more.
Those who consume the least electricity will benefi...
DATE: Mar 07, 2014
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Jonathan Kent
Belco has put forward a proposal to cut its facilities charge for residential customers who use the least electricity — which could result in a lower electricity bill for an estimated 44 percent of households.
However, the 28 percent of households wh...
DATE: Mar 06, 2014
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Jonathan Kent
New legislation regulating the Island’s charities has been tabled in the House of Assembly.
The Charities Bill 2014 is based largely on the UK’s Charities Act 2011 and, if approved, would repeal and replace the existing Charities Act 1978.
While the ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Hospitality Institute has launched a series of YouTube videos in the build-up to next month’s Plates of Passion event.
The April 3 event is intended both to kick off the 2014 Hospitality Month and raise funds for hospitality education pro...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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A screening of ‘In My Hands’ — an hour-long documentary about sufferers of Marfan syndrome — will be shown on Thursday evening at 6pm at Bermuda College Library.
The event has been organised by CedarBridge Academy student Naimah Frith, who has Marfan...
DATE: Mar 04, 2014
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Introducing corporate income tax could cripple international business and would need “an army” of Civil Servants to run it, Premier Craig Cannonier said last night as he responded to the Opposition’s reply to the Budget.
However, late last night Shad...
DATE: Mar 03, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Shadow Finance Minister David Burt says Bermuda must be more aggressive in order to break the “vicious economic cycle”.
In his official Budget reply, delivered in the House of Assembly, Mr Burt said the Island’s economy is broken and the wait-and-see...
DATE: Mar 01, 2014
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