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Financial details for the Island’s newly-drafted health benefits package will be put before the public later this year, according to Health Minister Zane DeSilva.
Residents should enjoy a wider range of benefits than those currently offered once the ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Residents have been hit by another electricity bill hike — meaning the average family is now paying 18 percent more than four years ago.
The fuel adjustment rate has increased from 17.5 cents to 19.5 cents per kilowatt hour, raising the bill for a fa...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Latvian sailor Janis Zegelis has been jailed for 25 years for importing $48 million worth of cocaine, a gun and 192 bullets into Bermuda on his yacht.
Meting out the sentence today, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: "This is a case of historical en...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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By Colin Thompson in Newport, Rhode Island
Spirit of Bermuda is expected to make landfall in Newport, Rhode Island later today.
The 118ft triple mast sloop left Norfolk, Virginia, yesterday to make the short sprint up the US East Coast to begin final...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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Bermuda needs to double the number of people who donate blood, according to Minister of Health Zane DeSilva.
He urged more people to help out to mark World Blood Donor Day on Thursday.
“Blood is not imported and blood supplies are dependent upon peop...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Jamaican guest worker in limbo as sentencing is delayed of fraudster who posed as immigration lawyer and stole $14,346
By Jonathan Bell
A Jamaican guest worker who lost nearly $15,000 to a fraudster has been reduced to living off the charity of frien...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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Other
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Minister of Health Zane DeSilva has praised the Bermuda Hospitals Board for programmes that are helping Bermudians realise their career dreams.
He said a shortage of nurses, doctors and x-ray technicians is a challenge and it is important to attract ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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An alleged gunman was remanded in custody yesterday after he was charged with attempting to kill two men.
Cervio Cox, 28, from Clarendon Road, Hamilton Parish, was charged with the attempted murder of Lavon Thomas and Darren Thomas in an incident on ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Taxpayers have paid $471,087 for consultants to the Ministry of Transport since April last year.
The news came on Friday in answers to Parliamentary Questions tabled by Shadow Minister for Transport Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.
There were four foreign co...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Twelve Bermudians who were part of Oakwood University’s Class of 2012 have been treated to a commencement address by one of their own.
Digicel Bermuda CEO Wayne Caines, a graduate of the 116-year-old black university in Huntsville, Alabama, was the k...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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