935 results returned for search: "education AND " author Owain Johnston-Barnes
Leading doctors from North America were among the experts that attended the Pink Conference on Breast Cancer, hosted by Bermuda.
More than 200 members of the public attended for free, and the event has been hailed a success by Minister of Health and ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Rainbow Alliance have disputed a claim by Opposition Leader Marc Bean that gay marriage would lead to moral disruption.
However, the group agreed with Mr Bean’s assertion that same sex marriage is inevitable — something the Opposition Leader desc...
DATE: Jul 13, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A pair of Knowledge Quest graduates have now been appointed directors of the education scholarship charity.
Newly named directors Eneye Jatto and Kerry Fletcher have worked with the charity for the last six years, and are the first graduates to be ap...
DATE: Jul 10, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former Bermuda teacher Derek Tully has met with US politicians in an effort to improve middle school education in the US.
Dr Tully, a Bermudian who worked in the Island’s public education system for 40 years, now works with the Association for Middle...
DATE: Jul 03, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A contentious debate in the House of Assembly saw amendments to the Child Day Care Allowance grudgingly approved.
The amendments put forward by Community Minister Wayne Scott gives Government the power to impose parenting classes on recipients who br...
DATE: Jun 29, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Health Department will next month host free speech and language screenings to P1 students entering the school system.
The screenings are intended to detect learning weaknesses at an early stage so as to reduce or prevent any negative impacts in t...
DATE: Jun 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 20 students were yesterday presented with their hard-earned GEDs during the CARE Learning Centre graduation ceremony.
A total of 23 students, including two employees of the Ministry of Public Works, two employees of the Ministry of Educatio...
DATE: Jun 28, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A teenager has admitted striking a Berkeley teacher with a plastic garbage can during a heated altercation with another student.
Tristan Hollis, 16, pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting Gregory Sargeant on May 10.
Magistrates’ Court heard that a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Prospect Primary Preschool is set to reopen today after water/plumbing problems that forced the school’s closure yesterday.
The school was closed at noon yesterday, but a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education said the issues have since been resol...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Portuguese language courses are set to start at Bermuda College this fall, according to Vasco Da Gama president Andrea Moniz-DeSouza.
The college will initially offer beginner-level courses in the language, but Mrs Moniz-DeSouza said if the courses a...
DATE: Jun 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
