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Acting Minister of Community and Culture Leah Scott recently marked Social Work Month with a donation to the newly launched Ida James Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Ms Scott read a proclamation officially declaring March Social Work Month 2013, and made ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Alcohol had a role in more than 50 percent of the Island’s road deaths in recent years, according to anti-drink driving campaigner Anthony Santucci.
“Since 2000 we have had more than 140 road deaths in Bermuda,” the CADA head told The Royal Gazette. ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A public meeting is being held tonight seek public input into how a historic burial site can be protected from development.
And pressure group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda is asking descendants of ancestors buried at the Tucker’s Town graveya...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s ageing population is causing Alzheimer’s to have a greater impact on the Island, but programmes are being introduced to help.
Elizabeth Stewart, founder of Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia (AAD) said few people are aware of how widespread...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government officials were on hand at LF Wade International Airport yesterday afternoon to welcome the arrival of Delta Air Lines’ inaugural flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
The Boeing 737 jet touched down on schedule at 2.30pm and, in true a...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Baroness Margaret Thatcher played a key role in helping Bermuda forge a strong relationship with the United States, former Premier Sir John Swan said yesterday.
“I had the great pleasure of knowing her very early in my career when I first came into o...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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A Sandys man yesterday denied sexually touching a young girl.
The man cannot be identified for legal reasons.
He pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to two counts of touching a girl under the age of 16 for a sexual purpose and one count of intru...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The One Bermuda Alliance has responded with silence to a request to clarify its claim that it has lived up to its promise to expand the school day.
“A longer school day has been expanded, to provide more time for sports, music, arts and remedial supp...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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Education
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The Department of Health is highlighting a free blood pressure clinic as part of this week’s Public Health Week.
This year’s theme is hypertension, or high blood pressure, and is being promoted with the slogan: “Do you know your blood pressure number...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Veterinarian Susann Smith maintains she was discriminated against when she was denied the post of Government vet in 1997.
“I know what I experienced all those years ago,” Dr Smith told Supreme Court, asking why else she would have subjected herself t...
DATE: Apr 09, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
