969 results returned for search: "education AND " author Owain Johnston-Barnes
Salvation Army volunteer, honours student and Carifta Games hopeful. Akeila Richardson’s teachers at CedarBridge Academy already knew she was a pretty outstanding teen and on Saturday night it was made official.
Richardson made history when she was n...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Victor Scott Parent Teacher Association President has promised to fight to keep the school’s principal following an announced shake-up.
The organisation plans to hold a meeting tonight to discuss its doubts about Government’s decisions to move pr...
DATE: Mar 21, 2012
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermudian educator Phyllis Brooks, who earlier this year received the Harriet Tubman Award for community service, has died at the age of 86.
Mrs Brooks (originally Simmons) studied at the Berkeley Institute before earning a scholarship to the Univers...
DATE: Mar 16, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government spent nearly $52 million more than it expected last year, with hospital subsidies costing $18 million more than originally budgeted.
A supplementary estimate tabled in the House of Assembly showed revealed costs for the financial year 2011...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Autism has become a public health crisis, affecting one percent of the world population according to Bermuda Autism Support and Education (BASE)
Speaking to the Hamilton Rotary on Tuesday, Autism Consultant Susannah Cole said that worldwide, around 6...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s seniors gained little in Premier Paula Cox’s Budget for the coming fiscal year.
So believes former Bermuda Council on Ageing head Marian Sherratt.
She said she agreed with the rollback announced by the Premier on land tax and vehicle licenc...
DATE: Mar 03, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Financial Assistance was given a boost in yesterday’s Budget, but the Mirrors programme suffered another heavy cut.
And the Sandys 360 programme received a $2 million grant to offset its construction costs.
According to the 2012/13 Budget, funding ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2012
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Sexual Assault has increased alarmingly in Bermuda, according to the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC), but figures from the Bermuda Police Service suggest the opposite.
The Quarterly Crime Statistics released yesterday by the Bermuda Police Service (BPS...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former Berkeley Institute student yesterday received a suspended sentence for supplying cannabis on the school grounds.
Kiarron Minks admitted in January to supplying cannabis to another student and possessing cannabis in an increased penalty zone....
DATE: Feb 15, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda has done much to meet international benchmarks for legislatures, but there is still room for improvement, according to Kim Swan of the former United Bermuda Party.
In the House of Assembly on Friday, Mr Swan led the House in a debate on Commo...
DATE: Feb 13, 2012
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
