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Twenty-five unemployed Bermudians have been trained as chambermaids and housemen as part of a new public-private partnership.
The trainees said they had problems finding jobs and were grateful to be offered a place on the training scheme.
Suriya Ram...
DATE: Mar 02, 2018
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Three Harvard University a Cappella bands will play a concert to raise cash for Bermuda’s Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
The Radcliffe Pitches, the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Din and Tonics will perform at the Anglican Cathedral on March 13.
Al...
DATE: Mar 02, 2018
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Khira-Milan Smith was overjoyed when she was chosen for a coding club at St George’s Preparatory School.
There was only room for 20 students, so names had to be pulled from a hat.
“I was like, I hope my name gets chosen. I hope it gets chosen,” the...
DATE: Mar 01, 2018
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Consultation on a proposed new sugar tax ends today.
Taxes will be increased on candy, soda and other “non-nutritive, luxury items” to promote healthy living and discourage importers from bringing in high-sugar products.
Supporters, including the Ber...
DATE: Mar 01, 2018
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A cancer expert who helped bring radiation therapy to Bermuda has been invited to speak at a conference in Canada.
Chris Fosker, clinical director and radiation oncologist at Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre, will speak about the cancer control chall...
DATE: Mar 01, 2018
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Taxpayers have forked out at least $5.3 million on the failed Sandys 360 facility, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The now-shuttered sports centre, which the Government plans to buy for $1 million and renovate for an as-yet-unknown sum, was funded with...
DATE: Feb 28, 2018
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Sam Strangeways
National security minister Wayne Caines engaged with students from BHS earlier today, when he was invited by the school to be a guest reader.
During his visit, Minister Caines read Dr. Seuss; The Cat in The Hat and The Foot to a P3 class. And at the ...
DATE: Feb 28, 2018
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Al Seymour has always been a compulsive sketcher.
As a child, he’d draw on anything within reach; the white pine coffins at Cecil W. Frith Funeral Home proved “irresistible”.
He said: “I started helping out there when I was very little. The workmen t...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
A public information campaign to focus on the decriminalisation of cannabis was launched yesterday.
Michael Weeks, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that the public needed to know about the law changes, which decriminalised possessio...
DATE: Feb 27, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
The cost to axe a controversial deal to build a new airport only months into its start would have been more than $100 million, a report by consultants revealed yesterday.
The LeighFisher report said that the island’s struggling economy would have suf...
DATE: Feb 24, 2018
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