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Employee pension payments are set to rise under Government plans to ease the strain on Bermuda?s pension system.
Finance Minister Paula Cox also revealed businesses and unions were being consulted on plans to increase the age of retirement.
Ms Cox sa...
DATE: Nov 19, 2005
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Half the Island's senior citizens live on a household income of less than $36,000, a new report reveals.
The stark finding comes in a major new study on seniors that will form the backbone of Government policy on the elderly, Premier Alex Scott annou...
DATE: Nov 19, 2005
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MPs from both parties welcomed the prospect of more life-saving defibrillator machines being put in public places across the Island during a debate in Parliament yesterday.
Minister of Health said that more than 100 Bermudians die of heart failure ea...
DATE: Nov 19, 2005
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Government will give free influenza vaccinations to seniors, to help reduce the risk of complications like pneumonia in this high-risk group.
Children between six months and two years old are at an even higher risk than seniors, according to a statem...
DATE: Nov 19, 2005
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The Triangle phenomenon became international in the 1970s with the publication of the Charles Berlitz's best-seller Bermuda Triangle, a pseudo-scientific study of mysterious marine and air traffic mishaps which, Mr. Berlitz claimed, were due to magne...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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The Bermuda Department of Tourism promoted Nine Beaches Resort at this years? World Trade Market, the world?s largest travel fair and expo, which ended in London yesterday.
Nine Beaches was marketed as an ultra-casual resort where guests stay in caba...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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Entertainer Tony Brannon has hit out at the Human Rights Commission for apparently finding against him over an allegedly racist e-mail he received from Premier Alex Scott.
Mr. Brannon, who is white, contacted the commission last month after getting a...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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Derecktor Shipyards in Bridgeport, Connecticut will deliver Bermuda?s newest 350-passenger high speed ferry by June next year at a cost of $4.99 million.
Marine and Ports Director, Barry Coupland said yesterday the new 124-foot-long ferry was almost ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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The body of an aid worker gunned down in front of his pregnant wife was due to be flown back to Bermuda last night.
Relatives of tragic Colin Lee confirmed he was due to be brought home from Africa yesterday evening.
Mr. Lee was ambushed by about 20 ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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Government is asking members of the public to weigh in on changing the current daylight saving schedule.
On October 30, Bermudians turned back their clocks one hour to mark the end of 2005?s daylight saving schedule.
Since 1986 the US and Bermuda hav...
DATE: Nov 18, 2005
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