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A private school is to start a $6 million expansion programme this summer to widen its curriculum.
Somersfield Academy aims to provide the full International Baccalaureate at the school, which was founded as a Montessori school in 1991.
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DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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A poverty-stricken single mother of two said she faced the grim prospect of putting her six-year-old son in foster care because she could no longer cope.
Antoinette — not her real name — said she struggled to get by on a part-time wage as a housekee...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018
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Bermuda should not get complacent over a lull in gang violence, the outgoing police commissioner has warned.
Michael DeSilva said it is “not a time to be lulled into a false sense of security” and said the social problems at the root of gangs needed ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2018
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A new register of land ownership will crack down on people who try to cheat vulnerable owners out of their property, MPs heard yesterday.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said the new land title registry would end a “sorr...
DATE: Jun 16, 2018
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Government has spent $125,000 to back the organisers of the Bermuda Heroes Weekend carnival.
Jamahl Simmons, the Minister of Tourism and Workforce Development told the House of Assembly that the financial backing would bring significant yields from “...
DATE: Jun 16, 2018
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Premier league footballer Nahki Wells helped make the launch of a new golf tournament in his name a “gleaming success” for the ConnecTech IT school this Sunday.
The inaugural ConnecTech Annual Golf Tournament included the Kids Putting Event in which ...
DATE: Jun 15, 2018
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A Bill to create a fintech development fund to invest in training Bermudians is to be introduced in Parliament today.
David Burt, the Premier, told MPs that the fund would support software engineering educational programmes for Bermudians, as well as...
DATE: Jun 15, 2018
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The performance of the Customs Department got a boost from its relocation this year, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security.
Mr Caines updated Parliament on the department’s activities in the first and second quarters of 2018.
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DATE: Jun 15, 2018
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Bermuda’s water infrastructure is to be boosted, public works minister Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told Parliament this morning.
A third extraction well at the Tynes Bay reverse osmosis plant and a new pumping station for the Cedar Park and Mary V...
DATE: Jun 15, 2018
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The Bermuda Government’s partnership with PwC will “change the way that the Government delivers its services”, Lovitta Foggo said today.
Ms Foggo, the government reform minister, gave the House of Assembly an update on its public service reform plan....
DATE: Jun 15, 2018
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