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Students attending Paget Primary school’s autism department have learnt how to “trust the unknown” through the Endeavour’s education-through-sailing programme.
According to Freda Trimm, special aid teacher at the school, the students were taught how ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Campaigners fear the public are “turned off” by obesity risks despite its crippling impact on Bermuda’s health and economy.
More than 8,000 people suffer from lifestyle and diet-linked type 2 diabetes, with 157 patients on dialysis at the hospital, a...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Maegan Costa and Britney Bannister met in 2008 at the fledgeling Dream Girls Club, a mentorship programme for young girls.
Now, after almost a decade of meetings and activities, the club has honoured their commitment to the programme by awarding them...
DATE: Oct 16, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Governor John Rankin has launched a drive to boost applications for a UK Government scholarship designed to develop leadership skills.
Mr Rankin said the Chevening Scholarship had not attracted “as many Bermudian applicants in the past as we would li...
DATE: Oct 16, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Non-profit groups can now apply for funding online via the Bank of Bermuda Foundation website.
The Foundation, which provides up to $2.5 million in funding to the charitable sector each year, says its “user-friendly format” will capture important inf...
DATE: Oct 16, 2017
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News Staff
Anti-drug initiatives and programmes designed to protect children are cost effective in the long term, according to the Minister of Social Development and Sport.
Zane DeSilva said: “US data tells us that for every $1 spent on prevention, education a...
DATE: Oct 16, 2017
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Bermuda Aviation Services Limited has donated $2,000 to support two literacy charities.
The group gave $1,000 each to the Reading Clinic and the reading festival organised by Bermuda Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
The Reading Clin...
DATE: Oct 16, 2017
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News Staff
It is all about the girls tomorrow when Bermuda plans to celebrate UN International Day of the Girl Child.
Carolyn Thomas Ray, of the Human Rights Commission, and organiser of the annual Bermuda event with husband Chris Ray, said the day was designed...
DATE: Oct 14, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Darryl Strawberry’s troubles off the baseball field were just as well documented as his exploits on it as one of the top sluggers in the game during a 17-year career.
But all of that is behind him now, the good times and the bad, as Strawberry has ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Lawrence Trott
Timothy Kikuvi emerged as the winner of a prize worth $2,500 in a Bermuda Stock Exchange-sponsored quiz to mark World Investor Week.
Entrants in the BSX WIW Quiz Challenge were invited to answer six questions embedded in a series of investment-relate...
DATE: Oct 13, 2017
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