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Nurses are to offer free health screenings as part of events supporting Healthy Heart Month.
Screening for blood pressure, blood sugar, Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist measurement will be available in the lobby of King Edward VII Hospital between 10 ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009
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Two politicians heard personal testimonies of faith from US President Barack Obama and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as they attended the National Prayer Breakfast.
Opposition Leader Kim Swan and Government Whip Lovitta Foggo were among 3,000 g...
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"Monkey go home" was the message Rolfe Commissiong found on his desk at Mount St. Agnes school one morning when he was six or seven years old.
Young Rolfe picked up the scrap of paper, which also bore a crude caricature of a monkey, screwed it up and...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Two guest workers were robbed after two men forced their way into their apartment demanding money.
Police attended the incident which took place at the Rosemont Guest Apartments, in Pembroke, where two overseas contract workers were staying.
They sai...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Culture Minister Dale Butler has warned charities failing to file annual financial reports that they could be stripped of their charitable status.
Mr. Butler told the House of Assembly on Friday that 66 of the Island's 403 registered charities — or 1...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Hundreds of people turned up in Flatts Village yesterday on the 50th anniversary of the first secret meeting, which helped change black history.
Onlookers were guided through the town, learning its history, which concluded, with a tour of the home of...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan last night called for a "full-fledged" independent investigation into the cheques alleged to have been doctored in order to "frame" Premier Ewart Brown and Cabinet Minister Derrick Burgess.
Government revealed the discovery...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Air and cruise arrivals were both down for 2008, Premier and Tourism Minister Ewart Brown announced today.
Revealing gloomy year-on-year statistics at a press conference, the Premier said the overall number of visitors for last year was 582,980 — dow...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Johndell Cumberbatch is unlikely to ever forget how to spell exhilaration — his perfect execution of the word on Saturday night helped him win a Disney holiday for his family.
The eight-year-old East End Primary School pupil was the champion of Spell...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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Union chief Ed Ball yesterday questioned whether Premier Ewart Brown has "hard and fast evidence" to support his claim that civil servants may be to blame for a smear campaign involving falsified cheques.
Dr. Brown and Works and Engineering Minister ...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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