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By ten years old, the average Bermudian child has had his or her first drink of alcohol.
By the time they are 16, six out of every ten teenagers have tried alcohol and teenagers who start drinking before they are 15, are five times more likely to dev...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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Lifestyle choices such as smoking, doing drugs and overeating are increasing health insurance premiums well beyond the level of inflation.
How much is spent in Bermuda on the diseases that result — diabetes and cancer — however, will not be known unt...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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Lawyer Julian Hall must wait until next week to hear whether the Chief Justice will discharge his bankruptcy.
He claims that because it prevents him working as a barrister, he can't earn enough to pay his $3.3 million debts.
However, his request has ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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Bus and ferry services will be disrupted today due to a general membership meeting of the Bermuda Industrial Union.
There will be no buses at all between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and the following ferry services will not run: the 11 a.m. and noon services ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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A young father has died in hospital after being found lying in the road with serious head injuries in the middle of the night.
David Ellis, 36, was pronounced dead at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon — less than a week after he w...
DATE: Apr 09, 2008
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An 18-year-old Bermudian law student is helping the homeless in Ireland and hopes businesses that operate in both countries will support her efforts.
Maryssa Gabriel, from Paget, found it difficult to walk by the homeless sitting on the Dublin street...
DATE: Apr 08, 2008
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A senior alderman has promised to pay back thousands of dollars to the Corporation of Hamilton for personal overseas calls made on his Corporation cell phone.
Former Deputy Mayor David Dunkley has agreed to pay the outstanding charges by tomorrow, ac...
DATE: Apr 08, 2008
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A senior alderman has promised to pay back thousands of dollars to the Corporation of Hamilton for personal overseas calls made on his Corporation cell phone.
Former Deputy Mayor David Dunkley has agreed to pay the outstanding charges by tomorrow, ac...
DATE: Apr 08, 2008
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Stable owners and horse and carriage operators expressed dismay at the decision to ban their trade from Harbour Nights.
And Norman Terceira from Terceira Stables said he thought the ban on horses from Harbour Nights was premature because they had not...
DATE: Apr 08, 2008
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Julian Hall believes attorneys for an elderly widow, from whom he was once accused of stealing, are contriving to keep him bankrupt in a case of "blacklisting of the worst kind".
He made the claim as he asked Chief Justice Richard Ground to lift the ...
DATE: Apr 08, 2008
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