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More than 300 Whitney Middle School pupils have joined the worldwide campaign demanding that governments of wealthy nations do more to stamp out child poverty by 2015.
The campaign stems from the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when 189 worl...
DATE: Oct 18, 2007
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Motorists will pay less at the pumps in future, with news of a 1.4 cent per litre drop in the price of gasoline.
The maximum retail price is now $1.74 per litre - although that is still significantly higher than the $1.61 gas cost this time last year...
DATE: Oct 18, 2007
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A call for volunteers to carry out on ambitious study of Bermuda's seniors has met with an enthusiastic response, according to Age Concern.
The charity has been appealing for people to conduct its massive Seniors' Test for Ageing Trends and Services ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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A former executive director of Keep Bermuda Beautiful has been warned he faces jail after stealing $42,050 from the charity.
Lennox Boodram, 46, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court to committing the offence between October 2001 and May 2005. The charity ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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The golf may have been world class but for most people yesterday the game was secondary.
It's fair to say that many of the people who attended the 25th PGA Grand Slam, at the Mid Ocean Club, had never set foot on a golf course before.
In fact many of...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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Self-defence classes for seniors, parents and children are to be taught at a new martial arts academy next month.
Bobby Smith hopes to officially re-open the Academy of Martial Arts in King Street following the devastating fire which tore through Joe...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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A drug addict who stole fish and meat to sell to feed his addiction has been jailed for three years at Magistrates' Court.
On Monday, Raymond Troy Spence, 41, of no fixed abode and known to the courts for his offences dating back to 1981, admitted to...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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An expert is being brought in to examine the rate of growth of tourism development on the Island, it emerged last night.
The Premier's Press Secretary Glenn Jones moved to clarify his earlier statement in which he said a consultant was being called i...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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Women are being urged to book a mammogram appointment at an open house event at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital on Friday from noon to 2 p.m.
The hospital's mammography unit is opening its doors to the public as part of Breast Health Awareness Mont...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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The forthcoming review of overseas territories is long overdue according to a British MP with a keen interest in Bermuda affairs.
Andrew MacKinlay, a Government backbencher who sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), said he hopes it will look a...
DATE: Oct 17, 2007
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