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Three public town hall meetings to discuss proposed reforms to health benefits are to be held in the coming weeks.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that healthcare providers, insurers, employees and patients had been sought to “encourage mean...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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A prolific musician who set the tempo for one of the island’s hottest acts from the 1970s and 1980s, Burning Ice, has died at 71.
A memorial jam session for drummer and singer Charles “Tao” Taylor, who died in June in Toronto, Canada, was held at the...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A former Auditor-General who discovered she had stage IV cancer seven years after it was first diagnosed is urging others to make sure they understand everything their doctors tell them.
Heather Jacobs Matthews found out last year the disease she was...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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Heather Jacobs Matthews walked along the South Shore every morning for many years.
She walked so regularly and so early in the morning, that friends and relatives would sometimes shake their heads and laugh at her routine.
But it was time she carved ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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Tonnes of emergency aid supplies were loaded yesterday on board a Royal Navy ship bound for the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas.
HMS Protector, the Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship, will stop off in the Bahamas with Royal Bermuda Regiment Colour Sergeant Sheld...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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A childhood love of cartoons helped a 19-year-old visual and creative arts student win this year’s $5,000 Bermuda Society of Arts bursary.
Andrea Wilson, due to start her second year at Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada, said she was “shocked” when ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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Former substance abusers who turned their life around will be highlighted throughout September as part of National Recovery Month.
The Department for National Drug Control, the Ministry of Legal Affairs and treatment agencies across the island will h...
DATE: Sep 08, 2019
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News Staff
Bermuda Bahamas Aid (Photographs by Akil Simmons)
DATE: Sep 07, 2019
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Work has been carried out at West End Primary School to remove floor tiles as a precaution in case they contain asbestos.
Air samples have also been taken and are being sent overseas.
Last night the Ministry of Education confirmed that during an ins...
DATE: Sep 07, 2019
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Education
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The Bermuda Red Cross has already raised almost $29,000 in donations to support the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.
Ann Spencer-Arscott, executive director of the charity, said: “As a community, Bermuda is always very supportive of our siste...
DATE: Sep 07, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
