61 results returned for search: "education AND " author Rebecca Zuill
Opposition deputy leader David Burt said the PLP is not against budget cuts, while pointing to the PLP’s proposal for a joint One Bermuda Alliance-Progressive Labour Party immigration policy as an effective method to resolve Bermuda’s financial diffi...
DATE: Apr 01, 2015
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Rebecca Zuill
Edgar Humann, a Bermuda resident, former French Consul and philanthropist who was the chairman of his family foundation that supported the arts and other charitable endeavours, died on Sunday afternoon. He was 77.
Gary Phillips, chairman of the Bermu...
DATE: Apr 01, 2015
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The Bermuda branch of the English Speaking Union wants local students, ages 11 to 18 to enter the ESU’s international “My Magna Carta” essay competition.
The organisation said: “The ‘My Magna Carta’ is an international creative essay competition in c...
DATE: Mar 31, 2015
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Education
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Rebecca Zuill
Bermuda has had four imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease Chikungunya that has spread throughout the Caribbean, MPs were told during the Budget debate on Monday.
As of January 21, the Department of Health had reported three cases, saying that...
DATE: Mar 11, 2015
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Health
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Rebecca Zuill
The threat of measles is over for one family whose nursery school-aged child had been in quarantine, along with his mother, for eight days while awaiting blood test results.
Last night, a Government spokesperson said that tests for the first two susp...
DATE: Mar 05, 2015
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Rebecca Zuill
Lovitta Foggo, the Shadow Minister for Education, has questioned whether Leah Scott should be retained as a junior minister.
After debate over a letter by the MP that bore striking similarities to a website article, the Progressive Labour Party last ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2015
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Politics
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Rebecca Zuill
Parents, teachers and students filled the auditorium at Somersfield Academy to view the Middle Years Programme (MYP) participants’ International Baccalaureate projects.
From Cani Swan’s hovercraft to a Donovan Stubbs bodybuilding programme, the 18 st...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015
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Education
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Rebecca Zuill
Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB) has been given a $10,000 donation from The Garden Club of Bermuda to go towards KBB’s 2015 fundraising drive.
The presentation, made at the Garden Club’s January general meeting, is to support their work of encouraging i...
DATE: Jan 30, 2015
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Rebecca Zuill
Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie, the chairman of Caricom, of which Bermuda is an associate member, has had talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping on behalf of the organisation.
The meeting was held last Wednesday at the Great Hall of the P...
DATE: Jan 13, 2015
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Rebecca Zuill
The economy needs a “wholesale overhaul” and a plan the One Bermuda Alliance and the Progressive Labour Party can both get behind, according to Shadow Finance Minister David Burt.
The deputy leader of the PLP spoke out after figures showed unemploym...
DATE: Jan 13, 2015
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Budget
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill