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A new Bermuda Educators’ Council has been elected following a hiatus of several months.
A chairman has yet to be appointed by the 11-member group, created in 2002 to oversee standards at the Island’s public and private schools
The previous council’s ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Warwick man who threatened One Bermuda Alliance candidate Jefferson Sousa has been freed after spending just over a month in jail.
Dimitri Robinson, 33, of Spring Hill, was jailed after he was unable to raise bail on September 20.
He’d earlier plea...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new Workforce Development Department is to be created from the merging of three Government offices.
Although a number of posts will be eliminated in the process, Government expects no redundancies as a result.
A spokeswoman for Economy, Trade and I...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Westgate’s Transitional Living Centre, a halfway house for prisoner rehabilitation that has been shut since June 30, is to reopen in April, according to Attorney General Kim Wilson.
Senator Wilson said the TLC would be Bermuda-staffed. The Centre had...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
City of Hamilton businesses with outdoor signs are invited to a Bermuda Chamber of Commerce meeting about updated regulations.
The City has changed its “very outdated” rules on overhanging signs, awnings and other items attached to buildings, the Cha...
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teen actor Faiz Shakir got a gratifying surprise when he spotted himself on the cover of a popular young adult novel.
“I didn’t even know it was out there,” the Berkeley Institute S3 student recalled. “I didn’t know when it was going to be published....
DATE: Oct 31, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Four hotel workers, all Bermudian, have been made redundant at one of the Island's leading hotels.
The cuts at Rosewood Tucker's Point were ascribed by a spokeswoman to “restructuring”.
The East End hotel, which employs 238 people, is understood by T...
DATE: Oct 30, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Spending on sports tourism is to be raised 20 percent as the Island aims to ramp up hotel numbers during the season’s traditionally quieter months.
Reversing last year’s more than $500,000 cut to the budget for sports marketing, the Tourism Board yes...
DATE: Oct 30, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Portuguese national caught working illegally at the Grand Atlantic Development was fined $500.
Maria Pacheco appeared in Magistrates’ Court alongside the South Shore Warwick property’s manager, Dennis Rodrigues.
Rodrigues, of So Far Lane, St George...
DATE: Oct 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A listed historic monument in Dockyard was knocked down for road widening — and never put back.
The Bermuda National Trust said a pillar for the South Gate in Dockyard was supposed to be restored, but instead ended up forgotten in the flurry of demol...
DATE: Oct 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
