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The cost of treating dementia patients on the Island is more than cancer, heart disease and stroke combined, according to Elizabeth Stewart, founder of the charity ‘Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia.’
And with Bermuda’s ageing population, Ms Stewar...
DATE: Jan 15, 2014
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Movie lovers can enjoy two new documentaries this weekend as part of the Bermuda Docs Weekend Film Series at Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
‘Let the Fire Burn’, winner of the Best Editing award at the International Documentary Association...
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Craig Cannonier is calling for closer collaboration between Bermuda and other British Overseas Territories in order to “pursue matters of mutual interest”.
The Premier spoke yesterday following a meeting in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with BVI P...
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Three years since the last case of polio was reported in India, the crippling disease has been all but eradicated in a country once considered to be at the centre of a global epidemic.
Political will and coordinated international efforts have seen re...
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Government has made no decision on the possibility of introducing commercial immigration to the Island, Michael Fahy, the Minister for Home Affairs, has insisted.
At a public meeting last night, Mr Fahy said Government wanted to open up a dialogue wi...
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Popular local artist Mark Burgess — an advertising designer, performer with the band Last Rites and former “Voice of Trimingham’s” — has died suddenly at the age of 56.
Mr Burgess was in Miami, Florida with his wife Maggie Toruno Coelho Burgess when ...
DATE: Jan 15, 2014
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The Centre for Justice has launched an in-house legal library — as well as an online site giving summaries of significant human rights and constitutional cases.
Director Venous Memari said the service would prove especially useful for lay people in r...
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The PLP will continue their fight to end conscription, says Shadow Minister for Community, Cultural Development and Sport Michael Weeks.
“While the OBA refused to collaborate with the PLP on a Bill we brought forward to abolish conscription, we remai...
DATE: Jan 14, 2014
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Bermuda has been praised for showing compassion and concern for the victims of deadly flooding in the eastern Caribbean.
Now plans have been made for a unified relief effort to help those affected by the heavy rains and severed flooding in the region...
DATE: Jan 14, 2014
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Government should not introduce pay incentives for teachers, according to Shadow Education Minister Walton Brown.
Education Minister Grant Gibbons recently told The Royal Gazette he was considering introducing incentives for high-performing schools a...
DATE: Jan 14, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
