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The families of Bermuda’s Uighur refugees are in need of help with English lessons, according to Amnesty International Bermuda.
The four men, brought to Bermuda four years ago from the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, now have young children, ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda needs to relax its immigration policies and vastly improve the education level of locals if it is to remain competitive in the global job market, according to employment expert Doug Soares.
He told Hamilton Rotarians that the Island needed to...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Sam Strangeways
A “blame and shame mentality” only hinders investigations into “adverse events” in healthcare, according to Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of staff Michael Weitekamp.
However, Dr Weitekamp added that “shield legislation” offered in Friday’s Throne Spe...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The first students who enrolled in an associate degree programme at Bermuda College with the aim of becoming registered nurses are set to graduate.
The six have returned from clinical training at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and have sp...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Education
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A Government move to regulate the importation of expensive new healthcare gadgetry to the Island has been welcomed as a step toward reducing Bermuda’s escalating healthcare costs.
The latest Throne Speech declared upcoming changes to the law would in...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government hopes to build “a more inclusive Bermuda” through drafting a National Gender Policy aimed at “removing impediments and barriers wherever they exist”.
Announced in the Throne Speech, a National Gender Policy “will establish a framework for ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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The Watford Sports Club has been granted planning permission to install two pairs of cabanas “recycled” from the 9 Beaches resort.
The application was approved by the Development Applications Board late last month and also includes repairs and increa...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 20-foot shipping container and a truck were filled with old, worn out electronics collected during the latest e-Waste Recycling Day, which has been hailed a success by the Waste Management Department.
Items accepted last Saturday included anything ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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A Paget man violently resisted arrest and unlawfully assaulted two police officers.
Sean Allen, 49, received a total of ten days imprisonment after admitting the offences.
Allen was riding a motorcycle when he was pulled over by police shortly after ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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Court
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A search for 18th century Bermuda sloop shipwrecks in the Turks and Caicos islands is being undertaken by a consortium involving the Bermuda Sloop Foundation and the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
Led by Dr Michael Jarvis — author of ‘In t...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013
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