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The body of teenager Jahmeiko Perkins was found in a roadside ditch just hours after he told his cousin he was “coming right back” to help her celebrate her birthday.
The 19-year-old, who was known as Meiko, was last seen alive at a family birthday p...
DATE: Aug 08, 2011
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The MarketPlace have partnered with Just Shirts Dry Cleaners to help the Salvation Army provide school uniforms for needy families. Major Shawn Critch, Divisional Commander for the Salvation Army, said that the demand for school uniforms is high as t...
DATE: Aug 08, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda Employers’ Council welcomed Government’s plans to retrain unemployed workers as it noted the Island unemployment problem spreads wide.
BEC, which has previously estimated 3,000 people have lost jobs in a two-year period, said the recent Unemp...
DATE: Aug 05, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The average age of unemployed people is 38, according to Government’s recent Unemployed Registration Drive.
Just over 1,000 people registered at the initiative designed to find out the needs of those who have fallen victim to the economic crisis, Eco...
DATE: Aug 04, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
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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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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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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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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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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