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Schools, parents and community groups are to be equipped with a “trauma indicator checklist” to help deal with the gang risks faced by the Island’s youth.
The toolkit is one among many developed quietly and behind the scenes at the community level as...
DATE: Jul 28, 2015
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Hospitality is the name of the game for 17-year-old Kayla Williams — and literally, since she came out of the Miss Bermuda Pageant without the crown but as Miss Hospitality instead.
Now, courtesy of the MEF group of restaurants, Kayla is in her eleme...
DATE: Jul 27, 2015
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A 2011 survey of students in public and private schools showed that 21 per cent reported attacking someone with “the intent to seriously harm” and eight per cent identified themselves as being in a gang.
The figures were given as Jeff Baron, the Juni...
DATE: Jul 27, 2015
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A walled-off area surrounding the roadside cenotaph monument by Christ Anglican Church, Devonshire, has taken two severe hits in six months.
However, the crashes have not put the church out of pocket, according to Canon James Francis.
“We find out wh...
DATE: Jul 27, 2015
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The night of July 19, 2012 was very nearly the last for Lance Furbert, Bermuda’s former curator of forts, who this week met the couple who saved his life against astounding odds.
On that day, holidaying with his wife Margo in the wilds of Yellowstone...
DATE: Jul 25, 2015
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The number of people now entitled to work in Bermuda permit-free under a new legal precedent delivered by the Supreme Court excludes the “vast majority” of work permit holders.
However, Peter Sanderson, the lawyer behind the latest ruling, cautioned ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2015
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A woman has cried foul after being discharged from the hospital’s emergency room, claiming she was turned away because staff there refused to take her complaint seriously.
Saudia Virgil told The Royal Gazette she had to call for an ambulance on Sunda...
DATE: Jul 24, 2015
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A failure to increase the population will result in everyone getting poorer, according to economist Peter Everson.
“For Bermuda, the reality is stark,” Mr Everson told The Royal Gazette as he reflected on a poll showing more than half of people do no...
DATE: Jul 24, 2015
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Under a new ruling by the Supreme Court, naturalised British Overseas Territories citizens are to be freed from work permit restrictions.
The judgment by Chief Justice Ian Kawaley carries potential implications for other areas of law that could be de...
DATE: Jul 23, 2015
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Jeremy Cox, the chief executive officer of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, was paid $500,000 last year, with a possible bonus of up to 30 per cent extra.
Mr Cox, who has stewarded the BMA for the past five years, has signed on for a second five-year ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2015
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