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Anti-racism advocacy group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda has thrown its support behind a call to withdraw a section of a proposed amendment which would expand the definition of harassment in the Human Rights Act.
CURB says that the section wou...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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A Smith’s woman who crashed her car on Middle Road was yesterday banned from driving for a year.
Crown counsel Garrett Byrne told Magistrates’ Court that at around 2.40am on Saturday police responded to a report of a single vehicle collision in Devon...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Mike Charles, secretary general of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, has been awarded an honorary degree by Endicott College.
Mr Charles travelled to the Beverly Massachusetts college to receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at its 73rd commencem...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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A fight for life as a result of being struck by an impaired driver became a life-changing experience for 19-year-old Shakir Amory.
Hit by a car being driven by a woman who was more than two-and-a-half times over the alcohol limit, he is committed now...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Employers are being given the opportunity to better understand their rights under the Employment Act, and also learn how to create better working environments and reduce labour complaints.
Those are some of the goals of a series of outreach seminars ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Budget
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The Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) will launch a series of workshops next week to help women find effective ways of dealing with stress and manage themselves emotionally in healthy relationships.
For two hours, once a week, participants will engage in...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Two Pembroke men were arrested in Devonshire yesterday after a handbag was stolen from a woman near Montpelier Road.
Officers spotted the men running through the area and into the Arboretum around 5.15am, a police spokesman said.
“It was then ascert...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Smith’s man yesterday admitted cultivating cannabis after eight seedlings were found on his property.
Makki Talbot Foote, 27, also admitted possessing 13.47g of cannabis, found in a plastic container, but denied possessing drug equipment, specifica...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Rubis Energy Bermuda has promised $10,000 to a charity that provides students with breakfast each day.
The company has donated $5,000 to the Coalition for the Protection of Children and will donate a further $5,000 next January.
The funds are to be p...
DATE: Jun 04, 2013
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Hospital officials seeking to head off soaring health costs report “mixed success” in getting long-term elderly patients taken home — often because their families can’t afford to look after them.
“The problem is, and has been for as long as I can rem...
DATE: Jun 04, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
