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Patients have been placed in the maternity and the children’s ward to help deal with the bed crisis at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
On Thursday afternoon, Bermuda Hospitals Board CEO Venetta Symonds stated that every single bed in the hospital’...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Some may have thought, when I announced in the House of Assembly a drop of more than $1 million in the Financial Assistance budget for the coming year, that the One Bermuda Alliance was cutting spending in one of the very areas that needs funding the...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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A woman has spoken out after her child was sent overseas for treatment without her consent — claiming the teenager had suffered years of abuse under foster care.
“What hurts me most is that it was all kept from me,” said the woman, whose child was pl...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Derek Walcott, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, died last week in his native Saint Lucia. Walcott’s muse was Caribbean but his reach was global. His death has triggered an outpouring of tributes, reflections and memories of the man ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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When Joshua Mather heard about the work of Feed My Lambs Ministry in Haiti, he wanted to do something to help.
After giving it some thought, the 10-year-old Saltus Grammar School student decided to donate his birthday money to the charity.
“One of t...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Beatrice Osborn, the widow of Bermudian war hero Geoffrey Osborn, has died at 100.
She lived in Bermuda for many years and was a Pink Lady volunteer at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. She also worked in the china department at Smith’s departme...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Scott Neil
The violence that has rocked the island in recent years has cost more than just the lives of young men, says Gina Spence.
Over the past seven years, she has worked with the families of more than 50 children who have lost fathers through violent crime...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Shadow health minister Kim Wilson has reiterated the need for laws requiring family members to care for their elderly relatives at home.
Ms Wilson was speaking in light of the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s announcement on Thursday that the emergency depa...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
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DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Former St George’s Cup Match captain Wendell Smith has told how he turned up to hospital prepared to have a serious knee operation on two occasions only to be sent home due to a lack of available beds.
And he said there was even a possibility that h...
DATE: Mar 25, 2017
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Sarah Lagan