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Skin cancer is a colourblind and fatal disease, according to Rhonda Smith-Simmons, education officer at the Bermuda Cancer Health Centre.
She told a meeting of Hamilton Rotarians this week that “skin cancer is the most preventable cancer, so it is re...
DATE: Aug 03, 2011
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Health
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There’s an old saying, little girls are made of sugar and spice, but when Dr Monique Jethwani-Keyser conducted interviews with 17 Bermuda teenage girls, she found them to be more spice than sugar.
The girls she interviewed were more likely to talk ba...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011
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Other
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons accused Government of electioneering with talk of adopting the Career Academies initiative from the United States.
Dr Gibbons said he’s heard many promises in recent years that young people will be given more t...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox last night promised that Bermuda’s long-awaited public access to information (PATI) law would become operational “in the second half of 2012”.
The legislation was passed in Parliament on July 23, 2010, when then Premier Ewart Brown...
DATE: Aug 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Historic scenes of Dockyard are featured on Bermuda’s newest series of stamps.
The series was unveiled by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kim Wilson, at a ceremony in Commissioner’s House one of the iconic Dockyard buildings depicted on the stam...
DATE: Jul 30, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has welcomed an ongoing review of special needs education in the public school system, calling it “necessary and long overdue”.
The review began earlier this year following a recommendation in Ombudsman Arlene ...
DATE: Jul 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Local businesses will play a key role lining young people up for long-term careers under the Island’s Jobs Corps vocational programme.
Community Development Minister Michael Weeks said Government wants to tap into the knowledge and expertise of the b...
DATE: Jul 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute has made enough behind-the-scenes savings to ‘unfreeze' the position of occupational therapist.
Government Senator Cromwell Shakir has praised the staff at MWI for successfully coming up with innovative ways to ma...
DATE: Jul 27, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The plight of Bermuda’s young black males was debated at length by politicians in the House of Assembly yesterday.
The debate came during a motion on Government’s efforts to implement the recommendations of the Mincy Report.
The report, handed to Gov...
DATE: Jul 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Governor Sir Richard Gozney says he takes heart from 11 guilty verdicts in the past year as Bermuda attempts to get to grips with soaring gun violence.
And Sir Richard is hopeful the solution to the Island’s ‘horrendous’ gang troubles can emerge from...
DATE: Jul 26, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
