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Agape House founder Hilary Soares has died at the age of 70, after spending the past few weeks at the hospice she set up to allow others to live their last days with dignity.
Mother-of-four Mrs Soares, a British nurse who moved to Bermuda in 1963, wa...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A hyperbaric chamber used at King Edward VII Memorial to treat divers suffering from the bends has passed an independent international risk assessment. And the result has prompted the global Divers Alert Network (DAN) to endorse the hospital as a pre...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Premier Paula Cox has visited Bermuda College to give words of encouragement to students upgrading their skills as part of a Government-sponsored back-to-work programme.
The Finance Minister was at the Paget campus on Thursday, when she told those ta...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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Education
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Police are searching for armed thieves who made off with cash in a brazen robbery at a Devonshire home on Friday.
The money was taken from five men socialising at the Tribe Road No 1 home.
No-one was injured in the incident, which occurred around 9.3...
DATE: Aug 21, 2011
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A British charity worker whose Dominican Republic-bound plane was diverted here after she bit flight attendants has been made to pay for the crime.
Carol Close was on a Thomson Airlines flight from Manchester, England when she attacked two flight att...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Court
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The sacked driver at the centre of the bus dispute has described the last eight weeks as “a living hell”.
Jennifer Harvey said she was “very relieved” that transport and union bosses were now going to arbitration.
The dispute is to be settled by inde...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Martin Law has resigned as executive director of Bermuda Employers’ Council.
Mr Law stepped down for personal reasons after six years in the post, according to a joint statement from the BEC and Mr Law.
“I initially agreed to spend five years with th...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bus operator Earlston Thompson continued to defy the Bermuda Industrial Union strike yesterday and drive his regular shift, saying he’d already resigned from the union.
“Reprisal is always a factor in situations like this here,” Mr Thompson said, sho...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A woman at the centre of the Corporation of Hamilton labour dispute has been charged in Magistrates’ Court with dealing cannabis.
Sacked Corporation worker Clevonna Symonds, 38, yesterday denied possessing the drug with intent to supply on June 7 in ...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Court
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Two cousins this summer became the first CedarBridge Academy students to attend a prestigious international college preparation programme overseas.
Devonshire residents Jahcoa Smith, 16, and Jarissa Benjamin-Smith, 17, gladly sacrificed Cup Match to ...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
