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World Human Rights Day was celebrated at Bermuda High School for Girls yesterday with a special presentation by first-year International Baccalaureate students to an assembly of the senior school.
Speaking, ironically, as the world watched a memorial...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Patrick Burgess
The St John Ambulance is in dire need of funds.
Growing debt, a sharp decline in volunteer numbers and dilapidated vehicles have put the non-profit in “financial straights”, meaning it can no longer offer vital services to the hundreds of events it a...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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A band of former Bermuda Regiment commanding officers is launching a campaign to block conscription from being abolished, claiming the move is not in the best interests of the Island and will result in the army unit eventually being dissolved.
The gr...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
KINGSTON (AP) — A Caribbean commission is expanding the number of former colonial powers it says should provide some form of reparations for the lingering regional impact of the Atlantic slave trade.
At a news conference at the Jamaica campus of the ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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Parliament’s final week promises a hectic two days for MPs — starting with today’s session, in which the lease for Hamilton’s proposed Par-la-Ville Hotel is to be debated.
The House of Assembly will also discuss authorising an $18 million guarantee b...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A drug treatment centre helping just 17 addicts is costing taxpayers almost $2 million a year.
And the Nelson Bascome Centre for Substance Abuse Treatment has almost twice as many staff as patients, according to newly released details.
The facility i...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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A larger-than-life portrait of Nelson Mandela has appeared overnight on the wall of a Court Street club.
The mural, measuring about 10ft by 8ft, was painted by a group of artists from the Chewstick Foundation, who worked through the night to pay thei...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Christmas came early for a handful of charities, courtesy of BTC.
The telecommunications company donated $12,000 to the six residents of Charities House — the Family Centre, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, PRIDE Bermuda, the Women’s Resource Centre, Ag...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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Protected green space around the Fairmont Southampton Hotel could be threatened under a Special Development Order (SDO) allowing the hotel to build, and sell, housing.
The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) has issued a call on the...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The mother of a heroin addict who died aged 25 said yesterday she was hopeful that the Senior Coroner would agree to her request for an inquest.
Lynn Spencer lost son Christopher on October 27 last year, after he collapsed at their Paget home, and sh...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
