332 results returned for search: "education AND " author Fiona McWhirter
Budding students can apply for funding of up to $35,000 to help cover the costs of their learning.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, announced today that a number of scholarship options will help people of all ages and backgrounds.
They includ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A young woman who took her own life is to be remembered by former colleagues at a charity event to support people with mental health problems.
Jessica Gibbons was 25 when her 2016 death by suicide shocked colleagues at Red Steakhouse in Hamilton, whi...
DATE: Jan 24, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Almost $9 million worth of contracts covering a four-year period have been handed out by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, it has been revealed.
Cleaning and landscape companies, management services and external medical training were all included in the l...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Three new schemes to develop young talent will be investments in the future of Bermuda, the Premier said yesterday.
David Burt announced the programmes, to benefit ten young people at a cost of about $70,000, in line with a Throne Speech pledge last ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Opportunities in Bermuda will be promoted to global business leaders in Europe next week.
David Burt, the Premier, will lead a team of three to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.
He said he was the only head of a...
DATE: Jan 17, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A plan to hire a PR agency to help the Government’s workforce development department boost its image has been dropped.
Businesses were asked to submit tenders last October for a campaign designed to generate a better image for the service.
A governme...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A teenage girl who died suddenly this week has had an online fundraising page set up in her memory by a cousin who lives overseas.
Kiara Paiva, who was 15, was found unconscious in her Hamilton Parish home on Monday and later pronounced dead by docto...
DATE: Jan 11, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda will become a global hub for new digital industries, a blockchain pioneer predicted yesterday.
Bruce Silcoff, the chief executive of Shyft, said yesterday the island could be a leader in a “fourth industrial revolution”.
Shyft signed a memora...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions.
Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An unused office in Washington cost the Government of Bermuda more than $175,000 for only ten months last year.
Liberty Place, on the United States capital’s 7th Street, was maintained even though it was closed in 2017.
A spokeswoman said the Governm...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter