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Teachers are set to take industrial action next month.
Staff have signalled they will take industrial action on Tuesday, September 2 — six days before children are due to return to classrooms.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said the di...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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Work to make sure schools are ready for the start of the new school year is in its final stages, Ministers said yesterday.
Education Minister Grant Gibbons and Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin teamed up at Harrington Sound Primary School...
DATE: Aug 19, 2014
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A self-confessed landlubber, even Premier Michael Dunkley can’t help but be excited by the fact that Bermuda could host the America’s Cup.
And with each passing day Mr Dunkley becomes more and more convinced the Island is the best place to host the 2...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014
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A massive $30,000 donation was yesterday made towards an educational fund for the daughter of a Bermuda Regiment officer killed on duty in England.
The Broad Arrow Freemasons lodge handed over the cash to little Katherine Wheddon, aged five, whose fa...
DATE: Aug 06, 2014
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A total five prisoners in Westgate jail have passed their General Education Diplomas.
And yesterday Premier and National Security Minister Michael Dunkley presented the five men with their certificates.
Mr Dunkley said: “I am always pleased to have t...
DATE: Jul 10, 2014
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Governor George Fergusson has handed back honorary membership of the Mid Ocean Club after a vote in the House of Assembly to ask him to consider holding an inquiry into historic land transactions.
Mr Fergusson said he acted after Randy Horton, the Sp...
DATE: Jul 08, 2014
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Pensions are set to be frozen at current levels for Government employees and MPs, Minister of Finance Bob Richards announced.
Mr Richards told the House of Assembly that pensions were massively underfunded and that he would introduce legislation aime...
DATE: Jun 28, 2014
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Politics
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A special conference is to be held next month to mark the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Bermuda.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley will be the keynote speaker at the event, which will also examine the development of human rights since the ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2014
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An olive branch has been offered to trade unions by Premier Michael Dunkley.
And he said that he wanted to foster good industrial relations with the union movement.
Mr Dunkley was speaking after he met representatives of the Bermuda Trades Union Cong...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Budget
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A US comic who branded Bermuda “a tax loophole masquerading as a country” has been blasted by the Island’s business sector.
Real Time host Bill Maher launched his attack on the Island on his top-rated show after a report on offshore jurisdictions was...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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