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Come Christmas Eve children are supposed to be dreaming of dancing sugar plums and... Africa?
JoAnn Walker moved to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe six years ago in pursuit of her purpose in life and found starving mouths she needed to feed and naked bodies that ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Sometimes children in Zimbabwe eat only one meal a week. Many don't have access to clean water and regularly go without electricity.
These conditions have led to a recent cholera outbreak, said to be further fuelled by the constant mismanagement of t...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Dame Jennifer Smith is in Bangladesh today representing Bermuda during their Parliamentary elections.
The country has not held an election in seven years because two of their major political party leaders were jailed for corruption and fraud.
Dame Je...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Christmas shoppers who paid to park in Hamilton car parks on Saturday when parking was free, will get a refund.
Ed Benevides, secretary for the Corporation of Hamilton, said the free parking had been advertised in The Royal Gazette last week.
And he ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Electronic equipment was stolen from a Southampton residence.
The complainant told Police that sometime between 10.45 a.m. and 5.45 p.m. on Thursday, someone broke into the South Road home while it was unoccupied.
Several items were stolen, including...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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It is a challenge in trying to prove yourself in a male dominated profession.
So believes Els Schouten, one the first female engineers to work on the Bermuda Islander.
In spite of that, the Holland native insists she loves working on ships, and plans...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Margaret Hallett became principal of Somersfield Academy ten years ago and is now retiring early from the school to seek fresh challenges. She talked to The Royal Gazette about her time at one of the Island's three Montessori facilities.
Every week m...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Two men were injured in a road accident at the junction of Montpelier Road and Happy Valley Road in Devonshire.
Police were called to the incident after a car and two auxiliary cycles collided shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
According to officers, th...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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A woman sustained minor injuries during a motorcycle accident in Devonshire.
Around 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, Police attended the scene on North Shore Road in Devonshire near the junction with Dock Hill involving a car and a motorcycle.
It appears that ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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The ex-girlfriend of a defendant who skipped the Island during his Supreme Court trial claimed she didn't know she was his surety for the whole trial and was fined $2,500 for his absence.
Kimhoy Lightbourne, 21, was summoned to Supreme Court by Puisn...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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