97 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Other" author Patrick Burgess
When the switch was thrown at 6am on August 2, 1962 to radio station ZFB-1, Egbert Montague Sheppard had endured two years of roadblocks to the creation of the island’s second station.
In 1960, after years abroad, Mr Sheppard, known widely as “Monty”...
DATE: May 04, 2020
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the launch of a fund to support hospitality education for Bermudians.
Speaking in the House of Assembly, David Allen said the new Hospitality Studies Endowment Fund is designed to uphold Government's commitment to ensure there are "no glass ceilings'...
DATE: Feb 10, 2001
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Minister Arthur Hodgson that the new Berkeley Institute is to be built on Woodland Preserve.
Last week Mr. Hodgson, who until October was the Environment Minister, told The Royal Gazette "it saddened me'' to have to sign the order for the school's de...
DATE: Feb 08, 2001
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Three teenaged schoolchildren were arrested yesterday following a Police drugs bust on a suspected cannabis-bagging factory.
All three teens -- thought to be Berkeley Institute students -- were eventually released after being questioned for four hour...
DATE: Jan 31, 2001
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concluded yesterday with Premier Jennifer Smith welcoming the exchange of ideas with academics and politicians.
A Government spokesman said the conference produced "wide ranging, lively and productive discussion on a variety of issues...'' and was de...
DATE: Jan 22, 2001
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Concern about the amount of noxious fumes coming from motor vehicles has prompted Government to launch a monitoring programme at the Transport Control Department.
The voluntary programme will run for the next three months at TCD operated by trained t...
DATE: Jan 20, 2001
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The Reading Clinic has announced the retirement of founder and President Elizabeth Kitson after more than 30 years of helping people with learning disabilities.
Mrs. Kitson will remain a trustee of the organisation she founded in 1968 and operated ou...
DATE: Nov 27, 2000
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Six years after controversially being turned down as headmaster of a school, Warren Jones has been appointed the first Assistant Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Central Policy Unit.
Premier Jennifer Smith made the announcement during yesterday'...
DATE: Nov 24, 2000
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Transport Minister Ewart Brown has promised the Island will have a seat belt law by next summer in his effort to make roads safer.
Dr. Brown explained last night that he intends to place a bill before Parliament in the spring session beginning in Feb...
DATE: Nov 24, 2000
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With more than half of Island households having Internet access, Government has taken steps to ensure that the remainder can log on to the World Wide Web for free.
The result of an anonymous donation, since early October, two computers at the Bermuda...
DATE: Nov 16, 2000
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