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Butterfield Bank is to donate $25,000 to a different Bermuda charity each month as part of a scheme launched yesterday.
The Butterfield Hope Award programme was created to assist charities with “humanitarian causes” the first donation will be made ne...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
The bulky waste shear at Tynes Bay will close for maintenance from January 24 to February 14.
Heavy commercial waste such as furniture and pallets will not be accepted at the plant during this time.
Bulky house waste can still be dropped off, but res...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Shadow Tourism Minister Cole Simons is urging Government to develop a “vision and plan” for Bermuda’s public beaches.
The UBP MP said in a statement yesterday: “These national treasures have become embroiled in controversy in recent years because the...
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A man who robbed an acquaintance of cash and stole a laptop and other electronics from a friend appeared in Magistrates’ Court.
Jamaine Salaam, 36, of no fixed abode, admitted to robbing Somerset resident Kevin Roberts of $120 cash last Friday.
He a...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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A charity dedicated to helping victims of abuse is appealing to the pubic for support to continue its work.
The Centre Against Abuse, which spends $700,000 each year to provide a safe-house and counselling services to victims of abuse, receives an an...
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A four-year-old girl who wouldn’t get a hair cut changed her mind and pledged her hair to charity after seeing child cancer patients on TV.
Odelle Brown, of Prism Heights, Southampton, said: “They didn’t have any hair. My sister felt sad, she almost ...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Bermudian construction workers should consider retraining so they can do jobs being farmed out to foreigners, according to Junior Economy Minister Ashfield DeVent.
Mr DeVent said out-of-work locals need to make sure they don’t get left behind as mode...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Drivers are being warned that parking spaces and traffic may be disrupted on Victoria Street as utility companies carry out trenching work.
A City of Hamilton spokeswoman said work has begun in the parking lane along the south side of Victoria Street...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The mother of an injured teenager and the mother of the drunk driver who hurt him both expressed shock after the culprit was jailed yesterday.
Angela Ambrosini, 37, was handed a one-year sentence for knocking 16-year-old Shakir Amory off his bike whi...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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The United Bermuda Party has questioned why timely information on unemployment is not available.
Opposition spokesman for the economy, Bob Richards, said Government's statement that Bermuda has more expatriate workers now than in 2007 “flies in the f...
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