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Bermuda’s residents are being urged to dedicate this month to improving the quality of life for all children and families.
In proclaiming Child Abuse Prevention Month, Nandi Outerbridge revealed that the Department of Child and Family Services receiv...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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The application process has begun for those interested in opening Bermuda’s first casinos.
In a statement released this afternoon, the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission announced that the period for filing an application for a casino licence will beg...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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The Bermuda Industrial Union has called an “urgent meeting” for all of its members regarding the court summonses served on “union members and executives”.
The meeting, at the BIU headquarters at Union Square, has been called for 4pm today.
BIU admini...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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Bill Shields has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bermuda Hospitals Board after “an extensive local and international recruitment process”, BHB announced today.
Mr Shields’ designation comes at a time of “major challenges” for BHB to rei...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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Jonathan Bell
Supermarket group Lindo’s have donated a six-figure amount to support the new radiation unit which will open later this year.
A sum of $100,000 has been given to Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre which will be used for the Centre’s Radiation Therapy ...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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The annual commemorative service for former slave and King’s Pilot James ‘Jemmy’ Darrell is to take place this Saturday.
Mr Darrell piloted the 74-gun HMS Resolution safely to its moorings near Tobacco Bay in 1795 while still a slave.
The ship’s ad...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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A Bermuda Under-20 footballer has denied fatally stabbing a man near the Blue Water Anglers Club in Hamilton.
Mikiel Thomas, 19, from Pembroke pleaded not guilty to the murder of Raymond Butterfield at the Supreme Court arraignments session this morn...
DATE: Apr 03, 2017
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Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers joined forces with the emergency services at the weekend to undertake a major disaster exercise ahead of the America’s Cup.
More than 250 personnel took part in a Dockyard disaster simulation designed to test the islan...
DATE: Apr 02, 2017
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Environmental organisations Greenrock and BEST have concluded that a formal merger of the two entities is not necessary to advance their goals.
The two organisations have been in talks facilitated by the Centre on Philanthropy’s Collaboration Initiat...
DATE: Apr 02, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House, said that the decision for Parliament to go ahead after he initially postponed it because of protests on December 2 was entirely his own.
“I was not pressured in any way,” Mr Horton said. “But certainly it was ...
DATE: Apr 01, 2017
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell