332 results returned for search: "education AND " author Fiona McWhirter
Charity leaders said a final funding push will help get them over the line to complete a life-changing centre for struggling parents and their children.
They praised the kindness of companies who had helped them to turn a former rest home into the Tr...
DATE: Nov 18, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A series of workshops to help women look after their finances will start on Monday.
The events are titled Straight Talk – Your Money and You and will run from 6pm until 7pm on November 16, 23 and 30.
Angela Joell, an education and investment manager ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A free virtual lecture to discuss how people resisted enslavement will be held by the National Museum of Bermuda next week.
Kirsty Warren will present Pushing the Boundaries of Freedom on Zoom from 5.30pm on November 18.
The Bermudian academic lives ...
DATE: Nov 12, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Teachers have been invited to a professional development workshop organised by the National Museum of Bermuda.
The free session will be held on Zoom and will be linked to a lecture about resistance to enslavement.
An NMB spokeswoman said: “This works...
DATE: Nov 09, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Plans to support children, seniors and vulnerable people were outlined yesterday when the Government vowed to “drive a movement of change” for Bermuda.
John Rankin, the Governor, said that there will also be help for those leaving the public care sys...
DATE: Nov 07, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A $5 million target was yesterday set for a new social fund designed to give a hand-up to the most underprivileged sectors of society.
The Bermuda Foundation launched the scheme to support schemes that would offer “mobility and advancement for the mo...
DATE: Oct 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A former school once earmarked for emergency housing has been ruled “surplus to Government requirement”.
Now the Ministry of Public Works has asked for expressions of interest to renovate the former Bishop Spencer School in Pembroke.
A spokesman sai...
DATE: Oct 21, 2020
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News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A paddle boarder is to take on his next feat in a 50-mile trip from an offshore buoy to a bay.
Matt Carr plans to make his way from a marker south-southeast of Bermuda back to shore on a stand up board.
He said: “I have made it around the island non-...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A $20,000 donation was made to a non-profit organisation that provides helps for people with special needs.
WindReach received the funding boost from Third Point Reinsurance to support its life skills and therapeutic riding programmes, which benefit ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Leaders of the island’s political parties pushed messages of unity and building a better future in a pre-election forum last night.
Topics covered included education, the economy, healthcare reform and the environment in panel interviews set up by Co...
DATE: Sep 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter