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The mother of Ricco Furbert, who was murdered in 2013, used an anti-violence event on Saturday to plead for help from the community to intervene in the life of another young man who she believes could suffer the same fate.
Nicole Fox spoke at the Pea...
DATE: Oct 23, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
Sexual assault is “pervasive” in Bermuda, according to one leading island social worker.
Laurie Shiell-Smith, executive director of the Centre Against Abuse, said that the organisation began using the #MeToo campaign to “let other survivors know tha...
DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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The inflation rate jumped to 2.3 per cent in August, up 0.6 of a percentage point from a year ago.
And between July and August, the average cost of goods and services in the consumer price index edged up 0.1 per cent. A basket of goods that cost $100...
DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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Scott Neil
Grieving mothers who have endured the pain of losing sons to violent crime have come together to form a support group.
Mothers on a Mission was officially launched yesterday in a bid to help tackle the fallout from gun crime and violence in Bermuda.
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DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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Albert Nicholl the philanthropist, aside from formerly being engaged in deep military service, lived an eclectic life but would be better known and remembered more in Bermuda for his generosity.
Some of the beneficiaries of his generosity were the f...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
A renowned clinician and educator will return to the island next week to speak about race and trauma.
Kenneth Hardy, a professor of family therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is being brought back to the island by the Family Centre.
While o...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
An international travel conference is set to be held on the island in what the Bermuda Tourism Authority described as a “double win”.
The 32nd Educational Travel Consortium Signature Conference is expected to bring more than 400 travel planners and t...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Union of Teachers has invited one of the original Freedom Writers — a group of teenagers disillusioned after the LA riots in 1992 — to be a keynote speaker at an education conference that starts today.
Manny Scott — who found hope through...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
An American country singer has donated two acoustic guitars to CedarBridge Academy to help introduce students to music.
Jessica Lynn, who performed at the Bermuda Festival earlier this year, visited the school as part of a student outreach programme....
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Implementing wi-fi in local schools was a topic discussed at the Bermuda Human Resource Association conference, which took place last week at Fairmont Southampton Hotel.
Vanessa Hardy Pickering, chief financial officer at Hamilton Re, said: “We have...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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