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The United Bermuda Party is calling for Government to get a grip on spiralling crime which it says is eroding Bermuda's way of life.
First quarter statistics showed robberies 50 percent higher than the same time last year while there were 135 burglar...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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The Bermuda Red Cross is urging the community to help survivors of the Myanmar cyclone disaster.
More than 1.5 million people have been left destitute following Cyclone Nargis, which tore through the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl two weeks ago. The hurri...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Four students were brought home to Bermuda from Barbados after the mother of one reported that he had been robbed at gunpoint.
Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday that the woman contacted the National Training Board (NTB), which spo...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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A National Parent Body, international academic benchmarking, more vocational qualifications and raising the school leaving age to 18, are among the recommendations of an overhaul of the country's education system.
The Ministry of Education further ou...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Students at Saltus Grammar School are due to sit a mathematics exam at 6 a.m. today — becoming the first youngsters on the Island to face a new early start time laid down by England's biggest exam board to combat cheating.
Fifteen pupils in the senio...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Some years ago, well known TV journalist Bill Moyers produced a television documentary called "The Vanishing Family".
It focused on how so many single mothers were struggling to raise children without the support of fathers, and the many social probl...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Marine police rushed a woman to an ambulance after she lost part of her finger in a sailing accident.
The sailboat Crossfire was participating in the regular Wednesday night racing when the victim, aged in her 30s, had her finger crushed.
According t...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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A 34-year-old Devonshire man has been arrested and detained in connection with the stabbing of a 38-year-old Pembroke woman.
The victim was said yesterday to be in a stable condition at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and had been moved from th...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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The Bermuda National Library will be closed next week to deal with the mould that was identified almost a year ago.
On Tuesday eight employees of the Queen Street, Hamilton building organised a sickout after complaining for a substantial amount of ti...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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An expatriate hotel director accused of sending a racially-charged e-mail is back in his job — despite publicly stating he was shipping out last year because he no longer felt comfortable here.
John O'Brien, executive director of Ariel Sands Residenc...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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