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Many success stories have come out of community centre Sandys 360 in its first year of being open.
The centre taught a double leg amputee to swim in three months and watched him go on to win two gold medals in swimming at a para-athlete competition....
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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The Bermuda National Library’s outreach service was praised yesterday for its work in helping Bermuda’s seniors and disabled.
The service delivers books and educational materials to seniors’ residences throughout the Island, as well as the Co-Ed Corr...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Unionised Belco workers have revealed they rejected a pay freeze because it came with no assurances on job security.
The Electricity Supply Trade Union (ESTU) issued a statement yesterday which said the utility company requested the freeze a year aft...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Bermuda has an elevated political risk due to the increase in public debt non-payment risk, according to a global firm’s assessment.
Bermuda is one of 12 island nations to have attracted a “sovereign non-payment icon” on the Aon Risk Solutions 2011 r...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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A Canadian woman smuggled cocaine into Bermuda by putting it in condoms inside her body.
Kayla Nicol, 22, told Customs officials she had narcotics on her when she arrived at LF Wade International airport on Sunday.
She pleaded guilty this afternoon t...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Bermuda Regiment recruits will fire live ammunition tomorrow in Southampton and Warwick.
Today marks the fifth day of Recruit Camp; 196 new soldiers are participating.
Bermuda Regiment spokesman Capt Christopher Gauntlett said the recruits are respon...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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More than 250 people applied to join the Bermuda Fire Service last year but only 13 passed the entrance tests and accepted a position.
Chief fire officer Vincent Hollinsid said the Fire Service is still short of strength and if recruiting problems co...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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An autopsy has been ordered on the body of the wife of Deputy Governor David Arkley after she was found dead last night.
Forty-two-year-old Melissa Arkley was fourd lifeless at ‘Clifton,’ the Deputy Governor’s official residence around 8.40pm. It is ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Congratulations to:
Peniston Jones of Dockyard whose birthday is today.
William Allen Ponder of Washington, DC whose 84th birthday was yesterday.
Lara Backeberg of Verdmont Valley Drive, Smith’s whose seventh birthday was yesterday.
Guilden M Gilbert...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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A former office clerk was pushed onto a bed and pinned down by his manager before being sexually assaulted, he told a court yesterday.
Mr X, 21, who claims the older man attacked him repeatedly between February and June 2009, said the alleged inciden...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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