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Belco this week launched its first Health, Safety and Environment Week to promote a health-conscious work environment.
The theme for the week-long programme is ‘Preventing Illnesses, Injuries and Incidents’, and the launch coincided with the Internat...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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The Island’s churches aim to unite the Island through prayer.
A committee of pastors, collectively known as Bermuda Prays, yesterday announced they were responding to issues such as gang violence, and a decline in traditional family values.
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DATE: May 02, 2013
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Bermuda’s labour unions have called on residents to support their call to move the Labour Day public holiday to May 1.
Leaders of seven of the Island’s unions gathered at the City Hall to commemorate International Workers Day at noon yesterday aftern...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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Participants in the Bermuda Triple Challenge have raised an estimated $11,000 for local charities so far, as a result of the first two of three events.
The second part of the series, ‘The Urban Foot Race’, was held last weekend in St George’s.
A tota...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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Taxi drivers must unite and work collectively if they are to improve the state of the industry, according to the new head of the organisation that represents Bermuda’s cabbies.
Bermuda Taxi Operators and Owners Association president Derek Young belie...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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The Bermuda Regiment’s public order specialists yesterday took a town back from rioters — at least in a training exercise.
Members of A Company had access to the state-of-the-art urban warfare training area at the US Marines’ Camp Lejeune.
Veteran Ma...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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Gang expert David Kennedy believes Bermuda can get a grip on its gang problem in the space of a year if it truly commits to an Operation Ceasefire-style approach.
The criminal justice professor and author, who visited the Island and its gun-crime hit...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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A day care service for Bermuda’s seniors is to be cancelled by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, due to underuse.
The programme, which saw its numbers of visits fall by 50 percent over a five-year period, costs $270,000 a year to run — and last year serve...
DATE: May 02, 2013
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A new-look Harbour Nights is on tonight, come rain, blow or shine.
Organisers have taken the decision to go ahead with the planned event every Wednesday until August 28 no matter what the weather.
But one major change to the revamped street festival...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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Revenue from wharfage fees in St George’s has shot up by 1,000 percent in just four years after the service was put into the hands of a private management company.
And East End officials are now confident the town can become a magnet for millionaire ...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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AUTHOR:
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