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Pembroke residents have united to salvage a stretch of Pembroke Canal on behalf of an elderly animal-lover.
Pensioner Harry Outerbridge, 85, wants to see the ducks return to the waters that flow past his Pitts Bay Road home.
For 35 years, Mr Outerbri...
DATE: Oct 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Guest workers are “team mates,’ a top businessman stressed during a public debate on the economy.
The forum, on Thursday, heard numerous complaints aired by Bermudians who feel excluded from local jobs and would like to see fewer expatriates on the I...
DATE: Oct 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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“Why can’t qualified young Bermudians get jobs, why are there so many foreign waitresses and why aren’t carpenters protected by stronger immigration rules?”
Those were some of the questions posed by ordinary citizens as they grabbed the opportunity t...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Former Accountant General Anthony Richardson says people’s negative comments about him running in the Devonshire South Central by-election show that “Bermuda needs healing”.
The Progressive Labour Party candidate has hit out at online comments about ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The One Bermuda Alliance has outlined a raft of emergency measures aimed at turning the economy around, accusing Government of “running out of ideas and energy”.
Shadow Finance Minister ET (Bob) Richards said yesterday that immediate steps need to be...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Bermudians are curbing their appetite for fried food, according to a survey of the Island’s health trends but four out of five adults are now watching more than two hours of television each day.
Since 2006, fast food consumption fell a total of five ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers were congratulated, and the media castigated, at a ceremony honouring World Teacher’s Day.
Commending the Cambridge exam results announced this week for public schools students, Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) President Keisha Douglas told t...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former office manager charged with a string of sex attacks on an employee agreed he “hand-selected” the much younger man for the job and took him under his wing.
Mr Y told Magistrates’ Court that throughout his life he had helped individuals who ne...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A row has broken out over what constitutes a pass for the IGCSE exams taken by Bermuda secondary school students.
Educators evaluating IGCSE results for Bermuda’s public schools have said the more rigorous C grade is the internationally accepted mea...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teacher locked in a legal battle with Government over alleged bullying by a special school principal is to appeal an arbitrator’s decision in the case.
Claudia DeSilva has filed grievances against Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy head Dena Butterfie...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
