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The man at the centre of a grievance against a primary school principal should not practice a scorched earth policy against the school, a group of teachers claimed this week.
They were responding to former teacher Mark Collins after he said he and hi...
DATE: May 04, 2000
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Bermuda will take centre stage in the US capital next year in a two week festival on the Washington DC Mall.
Culture Minister Terry Lister said Bermudian culture will be the foreign component in the 35th Smithsonian Folklife Festival which averages a...
DATE: Apr 28, 2000
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Education Minister Milton Scott has rushed to the defence of an Island School which suspended dozens of pupils following a drinking binge in the school playground.
And the Minister warned that there "must be a clear and unequivocal message'' sent to ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2000
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Government's debt ceiling was raised to $250 million to cover the costs of large projects, despite objections from the Opposition.
Finance Minister Eugene Cox told the House of Assembly on Wednesday night that raising the ceiling to just ten percent ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2000
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The Education Ministry budget will increase by $885,000 to $85.9 million.
And it is the Department of Education that takes the biggest slice of the pie with $68,958,000 going towards the running of the curriculum and schools.
In the coming year, $356...
DATE: Mar 04, 2000
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Government intends to spend $71 million, over three years, to build a new Berkeley Institute in a move to complete "unfinished business''.
This adds one year to previous commitments, but came as welcome news to the man who heads the school's board of...
DATE: Feb 19, 2000
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The overcrowding situation in the Island's youth homes is nothing new, but Government is looking to build a proper facility to stop growing youth crime.
And Health Minister Nelson Bascome pledged he would not order the imprisonment of young offenders...
DATE: Jan 31, 2000
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large variety of birds that make migratory and accidental visits to the Island.
The reasons why such exotic transients as the secretive Sora and the green winged teal have graced the Island this winter will be one of the topics in a four-week course ...
DATE: Jan 27, 2000
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his own after news broke of a dispute at Victor Scott Primary.
Livingston Tuzo, in a prepared statement yesterday, said the Association is "very disturbed'' at attacks on the "credibility and reputation'' of principal Esme Trott.
Parents last week sp...
DATE: Jan 18, 2000
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Administrators at the Bermuda College expect the institution to become a degree-granting university college by 2002.
To better learn the process of granting degrees in certain areas while still teaching trades, the College will hold a ground breaking...
DATE: Jan 14, 2000
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