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Hard work pays off. It’s a lesson recently learnt by Northlands Primary students.
Almost every hand went up when information technology teacher Mary-Beth Aitken asked for volunteers for a video competition.
Once they found out how much work was invol...
DATE: Apr 30, 2015
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Parenting
Dear Sir,
The article by the Audubon Society [Feral Cats in Bermuda: a problem that can be solved, February 13] portrays an inaccurate picture of Bermuda’s cat population and uses fear-mongering and non-scientific claims to achieve their narrow obj...
DATE: Mar 05, 2015
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Letters to the Editor
Every cat deserves a home. The domestic cat is called that for a reason: the species is the result of thousands of years of breeding by humans, and its natural habitat is the human home. A feral (meaning “wild”) cat is a domestic cat that is forced...
DATE: Feb 13, 2015
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Other
Concerns have been raised about the growing “feral cat problem” and their impact on wildlife and human health.
The felines are a “serious threat to Bermuda’s native biodiversity”, according to the Bermuda Audubon Society.
The group is now appealing t...
DATE: Sep 22, 2014
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Other
BEST chairman Stuart Hayward has called for stronger measures to protect Bermuda’s trees and animal species.
Addressing the Rotary Club yesterday he also urged caution over new plans to build a series of marinas across the Island.
Mr Hayward advocate...
DATE: Sep 17, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
A rigid inflexibility of mind. A lack of receptiveness to fresh ideas.
A tendency to fall back on tried-and- failed beliefs regardless of new circumstances or information.
As US President John F Kennedy once said, we often tend to subject all facts w...
DATE: Aug 02, 2014
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Editorials
Protests are looming over potential Bermuda status for Permanent Resident’s Certificate (PRC) holders, the Opposition Progressive Labour Party last night vowed.
In the PLP’s second of three town hall meetings on the topic, the One Bermuda Alliance Go...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Other
A Bermudian species of fern is on the edge of extinction, according to an international “red list” of endangered species.
The Governor Laffan’s Fern and the Bermuda Shield Fern have both been included in the International Union for the Conservation o...
DATE: Jun 20, 2014
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Other
It’s an unlikely friendship — but peer into a cahow burrow, and while Daisy — the chick who was born there — looks up at you with her big black eyes, Findlay the friendly skink slowly emerges, blinking, from his playmate’s fluffy baby feathers.
It’s...
DATE: Oct 09, 2013
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Other
A local natural history expert will explore some of the miraculous ways that Bermuda’s plants and animals found their way to the Island, tomorrow evening at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI).
Dr Wolfgang Sterrer, curator of the Natu...
DATE: Jul 11, 2013
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