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A campaign to provide families with school uniforms urged members of the public yesterday to dig deep and donate as the start of the new school year approaches.
Gina Spence’s Back to School drive has been running for 15 years and has helped hundreds ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Education
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Ewart Brown, the former premier, has called on the Bermuda Government to increase funding for a charity devoted to getting young people’s lives back on track.
Dr Brown, who backed setting up the Mirrors programme as one of his priorities when he beca...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Methods used to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Bermuda could be used to tackle other diseases such as hepatitis.
Bermuda announced this month that it had reached the milestone of elimination of HIV and syphilis in newborns — ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Demolition work at the former concessions building at Shelly Bay is almost complete.
The building was set to become a restaurant and bar with watersports and beach facilities, but demolition crews moved in last week after Government said the structur...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
All departments and sections of the Ministry of Public Works will close at 3.30pm tomorrow as staff hold a meeting.
The Ministry said measures are in place to minimise disruption to services and that regular business operations will resume on Thursda...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A 62-year-old man died yesterday after losing consciousness while snorkelling.
Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said it was contacted by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ research boat Henry Stommel just after 10am to report that it had an ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A Paget man who admitted driving while more than three times over the legal alcohol limit was today banned from the roads for 18 months and fined $1,200.
Magistrates’ Court heard that at about 3.15am on Monday police were driving along The Lane in P...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who admitted causing more than $1,700 of damage to a car parked in Hamilton was today sent to the Mental Health Treatment Court.
Magistrates’ Court heard that Tio Smith, 41, from Warwick, was seen using a helmet to scratch the side of a BMW par...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 1,900 employees got their health insurance back last year after employers were investigated by the Bermuda Health Council.
This resulted in more than $660,000 being collected in health premiums, according to the health watchdog’s annual re...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A Devonshire man remains in hospital after being found unresponsive in the road following a motorcycle crash last night.
It happened along Devon Springs Road, Devonshire, at around 9pm.
According to police, it appeared the 29-year-old man lost cont...
DATE: Aug 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff