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Local students were wowed with the exploits of marine biologists in Monterey, California, and the waters around Bermuda thanks to satellite and Internet link ups this week.
The ninth Jason Project got underway at the Bermuda Biological Station for Re...
DATE: Mar 24, 1998
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telephone calls "a matter of life or death'', an advocate for the hearing impaired said yesterday.
Jennifer Jeffers-Grant told Hamilton Rotarians that a "TTY relay service'' which allows the hearing impaired to speak to people with full hearing would...
DATE: Mar 11, 1998
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Some Bermuda College students will take their debating skills to a new level this month.
Seven of them, who form the The Model United Nations Club, will travel to Brussels, Belgium on March 24 for the seventh Harvard World Model United Nations confer...
DATE: Mar 09, 1998
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Eighteen civil servants received merit awards for outstanding work during 1997.
In a small conference room at Personnel Services in Global House on Church Street, family, friends, and senior civil servants warmly congratulated the recipients as they ...
DATE: Mar 03, 1998
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Recent changes in recruitment policy for the Police Service has created a new challenge in getting Bermudians to join.
Head of the Training Department Ch. Insp. Jonathan Smith this week told Hamilton Lions' weekly luncheon that said opportunities abo...
DATE: Feb 21, 1998
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leaders without relying on drugs.
This was the message driven home at Club PRIDE's first youth conference at Salvation Army's Citadel on North Street, Pembroke.
And it was reinforced by chants, such as "I don't need dope to cope'' and "I'm all that a...
DATE: Feb 12, 1998
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Bermuda is set to take centre stage in March in the ninth Jason Project called Oceans of the Earth and Beyond.
Fourteen-year-old Jeffrey Steynor of Warwick Academy will be a Student Argonaut in Monterey Bay, California and will take part in dives wit...
DATE: Jan 31, 1998
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When Pembroke West voters went to by-election polls last year to elect a new MP, fewer than ten percent of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 35 turned out to vote, according to at least one of the candidates.
Yet the 6,117 eligible voters ag...
DATE: Jan 21, 1998
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Warwick Academy's principal has introduced a scheme rewarding students for good behaviour.
Under the seven-week-old "Positive Discipline'' programme, students are monitored and rewards and sanctions are immediately handed out at the 336-year-old scho...
DATE: Jan 14, 1998
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Pembroke West candidate Rodney Smith plans to meet with young people who hang out in the area and listen to their concerns.
Mr. Smith -- who will represent the Progressive Labour Party in a by-election to fill the seat of retired United Bermuda Party...
DATE: Jan 09, 1998
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