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One in four of Bermuda's population could have diabetes by 2025 if current trends continue.
In the last ten years, there has been an almost 50 percent increase in obesity in the Caribbean.
Most of Bermuda's sufferers have Type Two diabetes which is l...
DATE: Mar 31, 2003
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Post Offices around the Island will be closing early on April 24 for a staff general meeting.
Postmaster General George Outerbridge said it is the first time in the Post Office's history that it was having a general meeting, where he hopes all staff ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2003
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Great Bermudian hosts Weldon Gilbert and Vincent Minors Sr. enjoyed a special luncheon at Waterloo House this week as first and second quarter winners of the Visitor Industry Partnership Sunshine Awards.
Mr. Gilbert won a weekend for two at Stoningto...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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German-registered tall ship the Alexander von Humboldt will sail out of Bermuda tomorrow after visiting the Island with a number of young trainee sailors on board.
She arrived on Wednesday from Martinique with 58 crew members and will begin her journ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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Although attendance at the March Against Violence rally held by the Bermuda College yesterday ran like a who's who of Bermuda politics and law enforcement, few of the young people the march was aimed at showed up.
And Minister of Home Affairs Terry L...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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A US cable channel will air a special programme on the Women in Public Life conference held here in October last year.
Black Entertainment Television channel (BET) will air the special at 2 p.m. tomorrow, according to a Government statement.
"I was d...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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Temporary work permit rules will be tightened up and travellers from Canada will be grilled by Immigration officials about their health in a bid to block the spread of a killer pneumonia-like infection.
Applicants for short term work permits from vir...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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Attorney General Dame Lois Browne Evans is to be honoured this week with a lifetime achievement award at the Seventh Annual Women of Great Esteem Awards ceremony at the Millennium UN Plaza hotel this weekend.
A Government press statement announcing t...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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Hotels in Bermuda have experienced a number of cancellations and postponements since the war in Iraq began - but it is still too early to predict the success or failure of the summer season.
The Bermuda Hotels Association this week sent a questionnai...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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Britain has no plans to examine arrangements for its overseas territories to be directly represented in that country's parliament, a junior minister told the House of Commons this week.
Sally Keeble, the Under-secretary of State for International Dev...
DATE: Mar 29, 2003
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