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Mental health benefits and services in Bermuda are not on an equal footing as those dealing with physical health, the Ministry of Health has admitted.
It was responding after Tania Stafford, a former service user at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Instit...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The new executive director of the Bermuda National Trust has called for a slowdown in land development proposals.
Karen Border said last week that she recognised that land development proposals were a way of stimulate the economy after the Covid-19 p...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A team of medics has been formed to support those with intellectual disabilities and their families at home.
The Community Intellectual Disabilities Team consists of nurses and therapists who work together to meet the needs of the clients and their f...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A senior Bermuda Police officer has been accepted into a top UK training course.
Assistant Commissioner Martin Weekes will join this year’s Police Strategic Command Course (SCC) facilitated by the UK’s College of Policing.
The SCC is policing's most...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Teachers will have an opportunity to go back to school next month, thanks to a new online coaching programme.
Veteran educator Gina Tucker will today launch EduCoach – an e-coaching platform designed specifically for coaching teachers, both locally a...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A prison-officer and former boxer who threatened to act like a “monster” towards his ex-wife was yesterday given a year-long conditional discharge.
Freeman Smith, 51, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the use of threatening words against the wo...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute is inviting youngsters to attend a special children’s hour this Saturday.
Kids Hour Saturdays will be held at 11am and 2pm and will feature the screening of a short film followed by a book reading for chi...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish was closed to through traffic this morning following a single vehicle collision which damaged a telephone poll.
The collision took place early this morning near the Howzat liquor shop in Shelly Bay.
A Belco spok...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The coronavirus pandemic sparked an increase in calls from workers concerned about their rights – including mandatory Covid testing, a new report shows.
According to the Human Rights Commission’s 2020 Annual Report, tabled in the House of Assembly on...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is “drifting without impetus” and is unlikely to achieve herd immunity targets, according to the Opposition.
Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for National Security and Health, spoke out f...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan