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An insurance group has pledged to support a charity that provides literacy and numeracy training to people with learning disabilities.
The Argus Group is donating to the Reading Clinic’s Core Reading Programme, which is designed for students with re...
DATE: Apr 07, 2015
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Kenyetta Young, an uncompromising “giant” of Bermuda’s labour movement who rose to prominence as an activist for construction workers, has died at the age of 72.
A charismatic, long serving organiser for the Bermuda Industrial Union, retiring in 2007...
DATE: Apr 07, 2015
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Seminars on the major steps in a tendering process and facility management are being held next month and in June.
The events have been organised through Strategic Procurement Solutions Bermuda, run buy One Bermuda Alliance senator Vic Ball.
The tend...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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Well-known bus driver and tourism ambassador Mark Anderson is hoping to raise funds for his Goddaughter by walking the length of the Island on Wednesday.
Mr Anderson, the man behind Queen of Bermuda Sybil Barrington, is aiming to raise $60,000 by w...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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More families are seeking help with food and shelter from the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
The organisation is also seeing a rise in diverse requests such as “educational endeavours, children’s uniforms, summer camp fees, healthcare need...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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Gabrielle Reid is only 13, but she has her future planned. Passionate about animals, she would like to be a veterinarian when she is older.
The youngest of three children, she came to The Royal Gazette to be interviewed along with her parents, Tony ...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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Rebecca Zuill
Veteran jazz drummer Clarence “Tootsie” Bean is to be honoured as part of Jazz Appreciation Month.
A month of weekly events running throughout this month began on Saturday with the first of five jazz suppers, which are taking place across the Island....
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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Fourteen young Bermudians have been braving the great outdoors on a six-day survival camp.
The intrepid adventurers are in training ahead of a ten-week expedition overseas, during which they will be helping those less fortunate through a series of su...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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The new Public Access to Information regime brings “awesome” implications, according to the creators of the Island’s first open data website that can assist with the refining of PATI questions.
On the eve of PATI’s implementation this month, Louis Ga...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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A catastrophe study programme tailor-made for Bermudians starting later this year could boost job prospects in a reinsurance sector hard-hit by mergers.
“A big part of this programme was built with Bermudians in mind,” said Professor Igor Kamenkovich...
DATE: Apr 06, 2015
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