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The United Bermuda Party believes longer school days and an independent school inspector could help the flagging education system.
Speaking at a United Bermuda Party public meeting on education Dr. Grant Gibbons recommended that Bermuda look to chart...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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Employees should be drug tested to root out a culture of substance abuse plaguing workforces, campaigners told a public conference yesterday.
About 80 percent of Bermuda's chemically dependent people have jobs, according to Chris Backeberg of testing...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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Uniting together to 'stop the violence' was the key message as the Progressive Labour Party presented its five candidates for Devonshire and Smith's to the electorate last night.
Prospective politicians urged witnesses to serious crimes and those wit...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A pregnant teenager claims a Police officer insulted her as she tried to report an attack on her by the father of her unborn child.
The 18-year-old — who asked not to be named — claims the Sergeant asked her why she got pregnant when she attempted to...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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Agency welcomes Delta's NY flight
One of the Island's largest travel agencies has welcomed the news of a new Delta Airlines route between Bermuda and New York's LaGuardia International Airport.
The daily non-stop service will commence on April 5, 200...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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An extra 1,000 jobs are being created each year in Bermuda and will result in the Island having 44,000 jobs by the year 2010.Of concern is the proportion of jobs that are being filled by non-Bermudians rather than Islanders.In 2006, 75 percent of new...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A sex pest who groped women as they travelled on buses was yesterday imprisoned for 30 days.
Nirmalan Anadacoomarasammy, 33, of Southampton, had denied two counts of sexual assault and two counts of invasion of the privacy of a female, stemming from ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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The department of National Drug Control is in talks to set up a residential drug rehab centre for 40 patients at the empty Dockyard property known as The Cottage.
The building could finally be getting a tenant after laying empty for eight years after...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A 65-year-old man died suddenly at the Sylvia Richardson Care Facility yesterday. Police were called to the St. George's elderly care home at 7.55 a.m.
A Police spokesman said: "It appears that a 65-year-old St. George's man living at the facility so...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A new Government study into young black males will be spearheaded by a Ivy League Professor. And the Premier hopes the $400,000 study will help the Government implement policies, programmes and legislation that will help bridge the gap between this s...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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