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The Government has budgeted for 36 more full-time equivalent public-sector posts in the next fiscal year, the Ministry of Finance clarified yesterday.
Wayne Furbert, the junior finance minister, was responding to yesterday’s front-page story in The R...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Politics
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A team of Dockyard ambassadors is to be signed up to help welcome visitors to the historic site.
The West End Development Corporation is looking for five people to work on “the frontline” at Dockyard.
Joanne Cranfield, Wedco business development mana...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A children’s fair and raffle organised by a Rotary Club is to raise funds for island primary schools next month.
Jason Taylor, president of the Pembroke Rotary Club, said: “This is a great event and really worthy of the whole community’s support.” ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Other
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News Staff
Masqueraders taking part in this year’s Parade of Bands will have twice the distance to peacock.
Participants in the Bermuda Heroes Weekend event will have the option this year of making either one or two laps around the St David’s route.
Jason Suk...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Other
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News Staff
Two people are believed injured after a collision this morning near the Paget traffic lights, while a police vehicle later had to be extricated from a hedge after a crash in St George’s.
A police spokesman said that officers had responded at 7.45am t...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A scheme to take invasive lionfish out of the sea and put them on dinner plates is to expand.
The number of hunters is to double and permits will run for a year instead of six months.
Tammy Warren, senior marine resources officer, said: “Initially it...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Needy seniors stand to benefit the most from a Budget commitment to add ten new beds to the Sylvia Richardson Care Facility, according to advocates for the elderly Age Concern.
The details emerged after the 2018-19 Budget allocated an extra $1.8 mill...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Town of St George marked the kindness shown to the last casualty of the War of 1812 with a ceremony on Saturday.
The annual ceremony in King’s Square pays tribute to US Navy Midshipman Richard Sutherland Dale, who died aged 20 in 1815 after being...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Berkeley Institute student Sierra Brangman is making sure young Bermudians have the chance to have their voices heard.
This month, the 17-year-old held the first in what she hopes to be a series of public talks, entitled “Sierra Speaks”, aimed at giv...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Diallo Rabain has taken aim at the One Bermuda Alliance’s educational policies and said the former government “condemned” students.
In an impassioned speech, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development said: “The future of our country down th...
DATE: Feb 26, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes