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A comprehensive survey is being done to examine philanthropy on the Island for the first time.
The Centre on Philanthropy, with support from the Donor Forum, have started The Giving Survey, which will gather a complete picture of charitable donations...
DATE: Feb 12, 2007
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The Minister of the Environment touted her ministry’s Grant Scheme which gave away almost $63,000 in financial support to individuals and institutions for efforts to conserve, preserve and restore the Island’s natural environment.
Minister Neletha Bu...
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Luxury hotel chain boss Gerald Lawless has spoken of his first impressions of the lost treasure of the Southlands estate and his hopes for a five-star hotel resort at the site.
The future of the sprawling and overgrown 37-acre estate is awaiting a Pl...
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The Ministry of the Environment, Telecommunications and E-Commerce (METEC) and the Department of Parks are renovating the Shelley Bay playground in February and are keeping the environment in mind.
The popular playground was built in 1993 and is one ...
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In a statement to the House of Assembly, Education Minister Randolph Horton said he had attended a conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Cape Town, South Africa, in December.
He said the discussion underlined that Bermuda was not alone in...
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?Get economic empowerment right and race will go away.?
This is the view of Maxwell Burgess who has said it?s time to stop being so squeamish about helping those most in need of a hand-up.
?If all the data before me tells me blacks are the most under...
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More than 200 students have joined an online community protesting development on the Southlands estate.
The group “The Southlands Project is Just WRONG” was formed on February 6 and already has 242 students listed as members on a popular online unive...
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MPs on Friday passed a bill to crackdown on child porn and sex predators who entice youngsters for sex over the Internet.
Luring a child over the web or by other means will carry a maximum ten-year jail sentence as will making child porn.
Fines can r...
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A child caregiver was charged in Magistrates' Court on Thursday for causing unlawful grievous bodily harm to a five-month-old boy.
Betty Jean Steede, 50, of Swan's Bay Road, St. George's, did not enter a plea as the charges are indictable and therefo...
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A brinkmanship stand-off with former Bermuda Housing Corporation management that went to within hours of a contempt of court hearing ended when the BHC backed down from a confrontation with the Bermuda Ombudsman's office and paid back money wrongly t...
DATE: Feb 12, 2007
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