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The Island's sole drug and alcohol counselling service for teens is set to expand its role in the battle to save high-risk youth.
Bermuda Youth Counselling Services plan this year to begin group therapy sessions focusing on anger/emotion management.
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DATE: Jan 11, 2000
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Punching a man and pushing another has earned a homeless man a six-month prison sentence.
After a night in a Police cell, Cannoth Roberts pleaded guilty last week before Acting Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner to punching George Kelly on the evenin...
DATE: Jan 06, 2000
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*** Every country worth its salt has a national narrative. Something to which it looks for who its people are and how it has been built.
If its people are not on the same page there is discord and mis-communication about the basics of history.
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DATE: Dec 20, 1999
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to take a library course on it.
Conducted by Joanne Brangman, head of the Bermuda National Library, the Library Research Skills for Parents course offered by the Community Education Development programme will begin in the new year.
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DATE: Dec 14, 1999
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through the use of a new reporting system.
The change has been so marked that the Ministry of Education is planning to use its attendance recording system throughout public schools.
After speaking with the Ministry's truancy officer Leonard (Shinah) ...
DATE: Dec 10, 1999
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After nearly 100 days as Government's top truancy officer, Leonard (Shinah) Simons says efforts to improve school attendance are beginning to work.
While he admitted that the truancy problem was serious, Mr. Simons yesterday told The Royal Gazette th...
DATE: Dec 08, 1999
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academic performance in overseas examinations.
Saltus offers Advanced Placement examinations for students in the Saltus Graduate Year, which if a grade of 3 or more is attained, credit or advance placement is granted by most North American colleges a...
DATE: Nov 26, 1999
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The company that runs the former US baselands has appointed a new chairman of its board.
Calvin White was appointed recently to be chairman of the Bermuda Land Development Company at the annual general meeting last week to replace Michelle Khaldun wh...
DATE: Nov 25, 1999
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Three schoolboys pleaded guilty yesterday to arson at Harrington Sound Primary School, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
And the total cost of the damage to the school has been pegged at $1.3 million dollars, it was disclosed to Magistrate Carlisle Greav...
DATE: Oct 14, 1999
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"We don't insult people's intelligence and we try not to assault people with volume.'' Jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione -- who some call the father of `smooth jazz' an honorific which he seemingly bristles at -- is in Bermuda this week to kick off the ...
DATE: Oct 11, 1999
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