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Students in public secondary schools received a grade of C or above in slightly more than half of the Cambridge IGCSE exams they took this year, Government revealed yesterday.
This is the first year a substantial number of public school students hav...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Mystery antennae attached to street lights around Hamilton are understood to be part of a Wi-Fi system being set up around the city.
An unofficial source told The Royal Gazette the citywide network was being developed for “internal use” by Government...
DATE: Oct 03, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Hurricane Ophelia will pass East of Bermuda later today, buffeting the Island with strong winds, occasional showers and heavy surf along South Shore.
The Bermuda Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning for the weekend.
Ophelia’s closest p...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
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The mother of a murder victim whose other son was recently jailed has been accused of stabbing a woman at the family home.
Valita Harford, 51, from Mission Lane, Pembroke, lost her son Kumi Harford to a gun murder in December 2009.
The man who killed...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teenaged burglar with a history of offences has been jailed for six months in Magistrates’ Court.
Jaymi O’Brian Edwards, 19, of Southampton, admitted two counts of burglary. He said he had been driven by the need to pay his Bermuda College tuition ...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Hurricane Ophelia was upgraded to a Category 3 storm earlier today, and is currently expected to pass 150 miles to Bermuda’s East tomorrow evening.
Ophelia currently packs maximum strength winds of 100 knots (115mph), and at 12 noon today was about 6...
DATE: Sep 30, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
The City of Hamilton has donated $5,000 to the late-night Let Us Drive taxi service.
The programme runs from 3.15am to 3.45am on Friday nights.
Deputy Mayor Glen Smith commended the initiative, which gives people on the town late on Friday nights a “...
DATE: Sep 30, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
A 54-year-old Pembroke man caught breaking into a car got a suspended sentence when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court, after being branded “a lifelong thief” by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.
The court heard from Crown counsel Susan Mulligan tha...
DATE: Sep 30, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s educational system needs to up its ante when it comes to technical studies, Bermuda College dean Llew Trott has warned. Mr Trott spoke before Hamilton Rotary Club, in advance of the College’s hosting of Science Week on October 19 and 20.
No...
DATE: Sep 29, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s Miss World contender Jana Outerbridge will be dressed to kill at the world pageant in London, with help from local sponsors AS Cooper and Sons.
Ms Outerbridge is to set off for London on October 18 and take on the world on November 6, at th...
DATE: Sep 29, 2011
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AUTHOR:
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