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Workers hold the keys to a better Bermuda, the Acting Premier said yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said that the labour movement in 2018 and beyond was “the most critical partner in the progressive we all want to see”.
Colonel Burch, the...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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A back-to-school drive was full of smiles on Saturday as families in need collected donations for the new school year.
Community activist Gina Spence’s Gina Spence Productions organised the event as part of her Each One Reach One Back To School Drive...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two Bermuda traffic police officers have undergone intensive training in the use of handheld breathalysers with a British force.
Acting Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell, head of the roads policing unit, and Acting Chief Inspector Dorian Astwood spent ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A former high school principal has questioned whether the move to axe middle schools is in the best interests of Bermuda.
Phyllis Curtis-Tweed, who was at the Berkeley Institute until last year, said she wondered how the Government’s decision to pha...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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A teacher’s job can sometimes feel like a thankless role, a representative of the teachers’ union said yesterday.
Shannon James, president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that “sometimes it just doesn’t feel like the community is on your side...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Bermuda’s workers are the “lifeblood” of the community, the Minister of Home Affairs said yesterday.
Walton Brown said that without the dedication and service of the workers “Bermuda simply wouldn’t run”.
He added: “I wish to salute each and every...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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An elderly man was taken to hospital yesterday after an apartment fire in Hamilton.
A spokesman for Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters were called out to a blaze in a one-bedroom apartment on the city’s Dundonald Street yesterday morn...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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Other
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A teenager caught with counterfeit Bermuda dollar bills was given a conditional discharge so he can take a training programme overseas.
Magistrates’ Court heard on Thursday that Kyari Flood was the pillion passenger of a motorcycle that was stopped b...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two suspects detained by police in connection with the murder of 25-year-old Danshun Swann were released on bail on Thursday night, according to a police spokesman.
Mr Swann was fatally stabbed in the early hours of last Monday after a brawl among a ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Neil Inchcup Sr, a self-made businessman who pioneered gambling in Bermuda, has died at the age of 82.
Mr Inchcup took the island by storm in 1994 with Freeport Bingo, which was broadcast on TV but ran afoul of the law.
Other ventures included longli...
DATE: Sep 04, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell