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More foster parents are needed to offer children a safe space while the Department of Child and Family Services works to reunify them with their biological families.
Although the number of foster children has declined, families are having to double ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Popularity with voters trumped party politics in Neville Tyrrell’s Warwick South Central triumph, according to seasoned political observer Charles Jeffers.
The new Progressive Labour Party MP reaped 79 per cent of the by-election votes on Tuesday nig...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Labour activist LaVerne Furbert predicted yesterday that protesters would try to shut down Parliament for a second time over the airport redevelopment plan but she said they would be doing so only as a “last straw”.
Ms Furbert told The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Sam Strangeways
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has launched a scathing condemnation of the way the Ministry of Education conducted its case against a CedarBridge teacher who claimed she had been unfairly treated.
Mr Justice Kawaley said “the conduct of the defendant’s ca...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Former deputy Premier Derrick Burgess has reiterated to the Commission of Inquiry that he did not know that “friends and family” of his and Ewart Brown had acquired interests in a company awarded a $70 million government contract.
Mr Burgess has subm...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Gregory Grimes, veteran police sergeant and dedicated football official, was laid to rest yesterday as streets in Hamilton were blocked off for his funeral at The Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity.
MPs from both the One Bermuda Alliance and the Prog...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
The Hamilton Seventh-day Adventist Church has been given a $5,000 boost for its community feeding programme thanks to Global Atlantic Re.
The company, a subsidary of the Global Atlantic Financial Group, had already donated $10,000 to the programme t...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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The police drugs unit has launched an investigation after a medical emergency involving two visitors at the Hamilton Princess Hotel on Tuesday.
In addition to a 25-year-old Canadian woman, who is in stable condition in the intensive care unit, a 35-y...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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Theresa Harney-Zuill, the manager of The Royal Palms Hotel, has been named the 2015/16 Hotelier of the Year.
The award from the Bermuda Hotel Association was formally given at an annual Christmas luncheon organised by the BHA and the Hotel Employers ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A planned strike by British Airways cabin crews, which could have had an impact on local travellers heading to the UK on Christmas and Boxing Day, has been called off.
Yesterday’s news in the British media followed Wednesday’s announcement that bagga...
DATE: Dec 22, 2016
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