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A new Workforce Development Department is to be created from the merging of three Government offices.
Although a number of posts will be eliminated in the process, Government expects no redundancies as a result.
A spokeswoman for Economy, Trade and I...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Westgate’s Transitional Living Centre, a halfway house for prisoner rehabilitation that has been shut since June 30, is to reopen in April, according to Attorney General Kim Wilson.
Senator Wilson said the TLC would be Bermuda-staffed. The Centre had...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A friend of mine once laughed when I explained I was more afraid of cockroaches than the harmful chemicals polluting my lungs with each spray of Baygon. Her haughty response? A roach isn’t going to kill you.
But that’s the strange thing about phobia...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Obesity is a problem in Bermuda, but the Department of Health hopes its new initiatives will help bring the rate down to a satisfactory level through exercise and healthy eating.
The Department and the Bermuda Conference of Seventh-day Adventists org...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Health
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A man charged with brandishing a knife in August was sentenced to three months in jail.
Edwin Trott Wolffe admitted on August 27 to pulling out a knife amid a crowd of tourists at Hamilton Ferry Terminal on August 26.
At an earlier court hearing, th...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Court
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Bermuda may have been rated as the eighth friendliest place in the world in a recent survey — but that’s not good enough for politician Kim Swan.
Mr Swan, of the United Bermuda Party, said the Island should be striving for the top spot.
The survey sa...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Tourism
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A large bird of prey was seen circling above Pembroke Marsh yesterday afternoon. The distinctive osprey, which feeds on fish, circled on thermals near Government House before scanning the marsh from its high vantage point.
Impressive fish catchers, ...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Police and firefighters were called to a motorcycle on fire in Devonshire around 12.45am on Tuesday.
A police spokesman said the vehicle was ablaze outside a home on Crown Hill Lane.
“The fire was extinguished by occupants of the residence prior to t...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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A Pembroke man was fined $1,000 after admitting to cannabis possession.
Prosecutor Tawana Tannock told Magistrates’ Court that on August 23, police arrested Michael Raynor, of Berkeley Road.
According to Ms Tannock, at around 9am, officers on patrol ...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Court
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The young man who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Glenn Brangman yesterday thanked all those who supported him in pursuing the case.
Mr X, who testified against former Regiment Major and BHC Manager Brangman in court, urged other sex victims: “D...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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