NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who live in neighbourhoods with heavy traffic pollution have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, a new study shows.
The effect of pollution on int...
Finance Minister Paula Cox has pledged Government is not about to cut jobs or privatize services as it seeks to improve public sector performance.
However, Chamber of Commerce economics subcommittee chairman Peter Everson said Government needed to tr...
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A teacher made sick by mould who won a legal battle against Government after refusing to return to work at CedarBridge Academy has been offered a job back at the school.
Ulama Finn-Hendrickson's lawyer received an e-mail from the Attorney General's c...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Finance Minister Paula Cox told business people yesterday that she had striven to limit Government spending in the face of hefty financial requests from her Cabinet colleagues.
And she added that the large increases in Government current account spen...
DATE: Feb 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Bermudian scientist Gregory (John) Outerbridge says it's just a matter of time before scientists find life in other solar systems.
"It's not IF but when," said Mr. Outerbridge who is here as a lecturer for Corange Science week on at the Bermuda Colle...
Drug use has become a "deeply ingrained part of our daily life" and needs to be attacked with vigour in order to protect Bermuda's international reputation, according to a new report released by the National Drug Control Department.
The 119-page Fram...
For single parents stuck in a rut of multiple low paid jobs, life can seem pretty dire.
But Family Centre executive director Martha Dismont said there is hope in even seemingly hopeless situations.
Her team has helped turn around families when things...
The Ministry of Education could have avoided a costly legal battle with CedarBridge teacher Ulama Finn-Hendrickson if it had simply replied to letters from her lawyer, a judge has concluded.
Puisne Judge Ian Kawaley said on Friday that Government's f...
When Ulama Finn-Hendrickson began working at CedarBridge Academy in 2000 she was, she says, full of enthusiasm and "as fit as a horse".
Newly arrived on the Island with her Bermudian husband, the Jamaican mother-of-four was looking forward to a long ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
