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The virtues of traditional marriage versus equal rights for all prompted plenty of discussion as pressure group Preserve Marriage held its “peaceful demonstration” yesterday lunchtime.
Hundreds packed the grounds of the Cabinet Building as the group ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Government came under pressure to fortify marriage laws as demonstrators for and against same-sex unions filled the grounds of Cabinet yesterday.
Two town-hall meetings on civil unions have been pledged, with the first to be held tomorrow...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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The Zika virus has made global headlines in recent days but Bermuda's Vector Control team have already been doing everything in their power to minimise the health risks from mosquitoes. The Department of Health's Vector Control experts say they are o...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Environment
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New legislation allowing long-term residents to obtain Bermuda status will inevitably prove discriminatory towards black Bermudians, according to Lynne Winfield of the anti-racism group Curb.
Ms Winfield said the announcement last week by Michael Fah...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
A pair of illegal pitbull-type dogs seized in Bermuda have found a new home in the United States.
While the exportation is being celebrated by Punish the Deed not the Breed Bermuda, the animal advocacy group is renewing its call for a dog amnesty.
“K...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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The financial viability of reorganising the island’s primary school system remains unknown as the Bermuda Government-commissioned Score report indicates it was “unable to make an assessment of potential cost savings”.
According to the school reorgan...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda’s genito-urinary cancer patients will now come under the care of oncologists, Dr Sein Aung, Director of Oncology at BHB, and Dr Christopher Fosker, the Bermuda Hospital Board announced today.
Since 2009, Dr Mary-Ellen Taplin, from the Dana-...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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A Facebook site has been launched for updates on the proposed redevelopment of LF Wade International Airport.
The site will also provide a public forum to ask questions about the project, according to a spokesman for Aecon, the prospective contractor...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Bermudian endocrinologist Annabel Fountain has presented at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, Bermuda Hospitals Board has announced.
Dr Fountain gave details on a “rare and interesting case” at the Society for Endocrinology National Clinical C...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Health
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A leading neurosurgeon will be the keynote speaker at next month’s “Docs for Dinner” event, hosted by Bermuda Healthcare Services and Brown-Darrell Clinic.
Keith Black, who has performed some 4,000 brain surgeries, will talk on the “emerging imaging ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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