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Taxes could be cut on healthy foods and increased on fatty ones as part of a drive to tackle an alarming rise in obesity and related illnesses.
The move, aimed at giving people an extra incentive to ditch junk food, is one of a raft of recommendation...
DATE: Aug 09, 2007
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The Healthy Weight Action Plan, unveiled by Health Minister Michael Scott yesterday, lists the following recommendations for a less obese Bermuda:
• Reformulate taxation structure to favour healthy foods over unhealthy foods
• Schools to implement nu...
DATE: Aug 09, 2007
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The Corporation of Hamilton has given its backing to Bermuda's first Run For Freedom. Mayor Sutherland Madeiros said he hoped the project would help highlight "reprehensible" levels of human captivity which continue to plague the world two centuries ...
DATE: Aug 09, 2007
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A young man suffered a broken jaw after being set upon in an unproked attack in Front Street, Hamilton, this morning.
The 23-year-old was enjoying a night out with friends when he was assaulted outside Cafe Cairo around 3.20 a.m after refusing his at...
DATE: Aug 09, 2007
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A Smith's residence was broken into on Monday.
The culprit removed an air conditioning unit to enter the Jennings Road home where he stole cash and jewellery including a gold tie pin in the shape of a Bermuda onion and cufflinks with J.H.C. inscribed...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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Developers Southlands Ltd. have extended an olive branch to protestors by encouraging them to have a say on an Environmental Advisory Board for the South Shore resort. At a press conference yesterday, developers said they would set up a board to "pro...
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Charities that fail to file annual accounts will be named and shamed for a second time later this year, Social Rehabilitation Minister Dale Butler warned yesterday .
He told a press conference that almost a hundred of Bermuda’s 408 registered chariti...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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Bermuda Public Services Union head Ed Ball is warning civil servants not to break the rules on staying out of politics if they don't want to risk the sack.
He said a PLP candidate had recently publicly named Government employees as being among his do...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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Drummer Paul Lennox is serious about his music and he's got the degree to prove it.
The 22-year-old former Warwick Academy student has just been awarded a bachelor of arts in professional musicianship from the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in En...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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The Corporation of Hamilton has given its backing to Bermuda's first Run For Freedom. Mayor Sutherland Madeiros said he hoped the project would help highlight "reprehensible" levels of human captivity which continue to plague the world two centuries ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2007
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith