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A youth charity is bidding to bring about a revolution in Bermuda’s schools by persuading every student to choose peace over violence.
The Bermuda Youth Peace Builder Network, launched by YouthNet, wants to recruit peace builders in every middle and ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The row between Bermuda Broadcasting Company (BBC) and Bermuda Football Association (BFA) over the news blackout of last week’s FIFA World Cup qualifier at the National Sports Centre (NSC) lingers on.
Relations between both parties soured after the B...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
Health Minister Zane DeSilva’s suggestion that the rich pay more for healthcare has drawn a sharp response from the One Bermuda Alliance, who speculate that Government is moving toward socialised medicine.
“It’s simply another form of income tax,” sa...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
With the Miss World competition over, it’s already time to start designing next year’s Miss Bermuda competition.
“It’s definitely going to continue as a yearly event,” vowed event director Milika Seymour, who revived the show after 14 years.
“We’re p...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The distilling of Bermudian experience into the ‘Meet the Bermudians’ series on CBS Radio has picked up an award from the International Academy of Visual Arts (IAVA). The group has chosen the campaign for the 2011 W3 Silver Award.
“The passionate peo...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Desperation drove a supermarket manager to steal from his employers, the accused man’s lawyer told Magistrates’ Court.
Gary Clayton Dillas, of Quarry Hill Road, Warwick, was employed as a front-end manager for the MarketPlace on Church Street.
He was...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Staff at a Hamilton Parish supermarket have been left wondering what their community has come to, after thugs set upon an employee in the parking lot at closing time.
The attack came shortly after 10pm on Thursday, at the Shelly Bay MarketPlace. A fe...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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An expansion of Rosewood Tucker’s Point remains on the cards as bosses hope to cash in on the hotel’s increase in popularity.
About 50 rooms look set to be added to the “area immediately around” the hotel’s main building at Castle Harbour.
It comes ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Emergency services dealt with four traffic accidents resulting in injury during Friday’s public holiday.
And one of the crashes has prompted an MP to call for better safety measures on the road in question.
No-one was seriously hurt in any of the acc...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A 24-year-old Southampton man caught with cannabis told Magistrates’ Court he had been simply enjoying Father’s Day with his friends.
Makonnen Asir Tove De Chan Lowe was searched on June 19, after police on mobile patrol spotted a group of young men ...
DATE: Nov 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
