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The Progressive Labour Party has boasted of a “dramatic increase in incomes” since they came to power.
But the Opposition hit back, dismissing the statement as “spin”.
The PLP highlighted income data from a Labour Force Survey issued last week.
“In 2...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Politics
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Most children wouldn’t have to be asked twice for the chance to stay up all night playing games and eating treats.
For 11 Purvis Primary School students in P6, it was all in the name of charity: the children were sponsored for a ‘Non Sleep-a-Thon’ — ...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Education
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A Bermudian teacher has questioned why she can’t get a job at a public school when Government is struggling to fill vacancies with educators from abroad.
Shar-Dae Whitter said she was a substitute teacher at CedarBridge Academy last year and Whitney ...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A marine biologist and former Bio Station ecologist stumbled upon a wedding band at Fort St Catherine beach while visiting the Island.
Kimberly Holzer, of Crozet, Virginia, was visiting one of her former seagrass research sites when she found the ri...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Number Five Car Park on Front Street will be closed to motorists from this morning through to Monday, October 29 to accommodate the Bermuda Corporate Games activities which take place from Thursday to Sunday this week. Alternative parking can be foun...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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The Opposition has taken issue with comments from the PLP praising work on a controversial Dockyard project.
Addressing the party’s annual conference last week, deputy leader Derrick Burgess boasted that Government built a $60 million cruise ship doc...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Politics
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A US visitor died of a heart attack while on a golfing trip to the Island.
Former county official Marty Gangemi was holidaying with his wife Alice and two other couples at a private residence in Bermuda, his son Tony Gangemi said.
“It was their first...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Firefighters had to respond on Saturday evening to a blaze on an islet by Two Rock Passage, Hamilton Harbour.
According to Bermuda Maritime Operations, the 6.45pm blaze that alarmed nearby residents was “a controlled blaze that got out of hand” — but...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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A new commemorative stamp series honouring the 400th anniversary of St Peter’s Church has been released.
The Bermuda Post Office’s Philatelic Bureau earlier this week announced the new series, which consists of four stamps. Stamp images include a vi...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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A “personality disorder” caused a 24-year-old to steal nearly $10,000 in jewellery from her grandmother and say it was burgled, a lawyer claimed.
Saul Dismont told Magistrates’ Court Aeisha Place was in need of treatment because of her “antisocial be...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
