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The Bermuda Health Council has created a new online tool to help people get value for money when it comes to prescription drugs.
The resource, aimed at decreasing the cost of drugs, allows the public to look up the suggested total cost for the most ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The contract on the controversial airport deal will not be scrapped, the Premier announced yesterday.
But David Burt pledged that the Government would work through the “bad deal and do all that we can do to realise some good for the people of whom ...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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The Bermuda Sloop Foundation will resort to “piracy” once more to raise funds for its voyages on-board the Spirit of Bermuda.
The organisation, which has just won the Tall Ships America Programme of the Year Award 2017, is to host its signature Pira...
DATE: Feb 23, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A 50-year-old tourist from New York who died after collapsing yesterday outside the Unfinished Church in St George’s has been named by police as Frank Marzocca.
A spokesman offered condolences to Mr Marzocca’s family, who are being assisted by a fami...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Disabled people will need more protection in the workplace in the wake of a Budget sweetener to boost their employment prospects, a leading campaigner warned yesterday.
LaKiesha Wolffe welcomed the Budget announcement that the employer portion of pa...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Family Centre will have to raise extra funds to cover the cost of its move from Charities House in Paget to King Street in Hamilton.
Martha Dismont, executive director of Family Centre, said: “We have to raise another $150,000 on top of our budget.
“...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An American woman raped in Bermuda 40 years ago has penned a letter to a schoolgirl sexually assaulted and killed only weeks after her own ordeal.
Keri Ebright wrote a Letter to the Editor to mark the anniversary of the death of 11-year-old Connie Fu...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A former prison officer convicted of smuggling drugs into Westgate Correctional Facility has won a Supreme Court appeal.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled that three convictions against Art Simons should be quashed.
The judge did not dismiss the charge...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A war of words broke out in the Senate yesterday over cuts in fees for MRI and CT medical scans.
Andrew Simons of the One Bermuda Alliance said Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, had lied when she claimed the OBA ignored technical recommendations wh...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An about-turn on same-sex marriage is “the last straw” for Bermudian Joe Gibbons and his Canadian partner, Christopher Vee.
The couple are in the process of buying a business in Canada, where they aim to settle later this year.
Mr Gibbons said: “We’v...
DATE: Feb 22, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell