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Work of art: Karen Wetmiller carves a jack-o’-lantern at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo yesterday. She was one of a handful of youngsters who gathered to carve the pumpkins that will be placed throughout the zoo’s exhibits. The pumpkins are pla...
DATE: Oct 31, 2013
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A controversial subsidiary of the Bermuda Hospitals Board should be wound up by the end of the year, according to BHB chairman Jonathan Brewin.
Healthcare Partners Limited (HPL) was incorporated in 2008 to go into business with private partners as a ...
DATE: Oct 31, 2013
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Kenny Bascome and Nandi Davis handed out treats at an OBA St Georges pre-halloween grassroots trick or treat event at Ordnance Island. Candy ,raisins, nuts ,and toothbrushes were given out to area residents. (Photos by Peter Young)
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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Two veterans of the Second World War have helped kick-start the Bermuda Legion’s annual fundraising Poppy Appeal campaign by presenting poppies to Governor George Fergusson.
Betty Vincent, who served in the Royal Navy, and Canon Thomas Nisbett of the...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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Gareth Finighan
More than 1,300 Islanders took advantage of a $10 “drive-through” flu shot from the Department of Health.
The Flu Express travelled to St George’s, Warwick, Sandys and Hamilton earlier this month to give people aged ten and above a convenient way to ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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A personal trainer was banned from driving for a year after she admitted driving while impaired.
Lori Rye, 37, from Hamilton Parish, was stopped by Police on October 25 on Middle Road in Paget after officers on mobile patrol saw her swerving in the r...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A proposed development on the site of the ‘Queen of the East’ has been revised because the initial plan was “unworkable, unrealistic and not functional.”
The revised plan still calls for the demolition of the historic former brothel on Crow Lane in f...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan has praised Opposition leader Marc Bean for acknowledging that his party made mistakes while in Government.
Speaking at the Progressive Labour Party’s annual conference on Saturday night, Mr Bean said that ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Area MP for Pembroke East Central Michael Weeks has hailed steady progress at Victor Scott School as a shining example of success against the odds.
After more than three years of taking Cambridge Exams, students “matched or surpassed the Bermuda aver...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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Education
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A grandmother visiting her family in Bermuda was barred from entering the Island by “heavy-handed” Immigration officials who treated her “like a common criminal”.
And Anne Robinson has now written to Governor George Fergusson to complain about her “h...
DATE: Oct 30, 2013
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