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A “sincere apology” was today issued to Government staff and clients who had to be evacuated from Global House on Thursday morning.
Minister of Public Works Patricia Gordon-Pamplin told the House of Assembly that the ministry and the Department of Pu...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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A total of nine prisoners offered parole turned it down, the latest set of figures for the Parole Board have revealed.
And out of a total of 156 cases, according to parole board members, only 34 were allowed out of prison before they had served their...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Health chiefs have appointed a new oncologist following concerns of a shortage of cancer specialists on the Island.
This morning Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) confirmed that Dr Sein Aung has been hired as Director of Oncology. Originally from Myanmar...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
More discussion is needed to determine the level of parental and community involvement in Bermuda’s schools, according to Education Minister Grant Gibbons.
Dr Gibbons launched a consultation process earlier this year on proposed changes to the Educat...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s anti-drug organisations are working hard despite a cut in Government grants, according to Premier Michael Dunkley.
Speaking in the House of Assembly this morning, Mr Dunkley said that in the past fiscal year the Department for National Drug...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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The Read Write Bermuda Campaign and the Bermuda National Library Summer Reading Programme were today launched by Minister of Community, Culture and Sports, Wayne Scott.
The initiative, which promotes reading and writing and celebrates Bermuda’s liter...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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He signed up for the 29-year-old programme during a meeting with US Consul General Robert Settje on Thursday.
Mr Gibbons said: “The purpose of the agreement is to introduce a programme to the Bermuda public school system that will increase awareness ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Public Access to Information (PATI) legislation has been tabled in the House of Assembly, and is set to be fully operational by next April.
Premier Michael Dunkley this morning tabled the Public Access to Information Regulations 2014 and the Public A...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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D-Day veteran Francis (Frank) Farmer, a former president of the Bermuda War Veterans Association, has died at the age of 88.
Mr Farmer joined the Royal Navy at 17, signing on in 1943 and serving around the globe in the Second World War
He took part i...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Debt collection agencies “bend over backwards” to avoid people being jailed, a barrister said yesterday.
Christopher Swan, who is also a director of a debt agency, said he had acted for both creditors and debtors in the courts, and that the system wa...
DATE: Jul 03, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
