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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons claimed yesterday that plans to cluster groups of public schools under one board could prove counter-productive.
The United Bermuda Party MP attended a public forum on Tuesday night which saw worried parents fr...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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Students sitting early morning exams later this month have been granted a slight reprieve: they now won't have to get their brains into gear until 6.30 a.m.
The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) told The Royal Gazette yesterday that it had...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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Lindo's is binning brown paper bags and giving out reuseable replacements to shoppers to help the environment.
The supermarket — which has branches in Warwick and Devonshire — announced the move yesterday and said customers spending $100 before May 3...
DATE: May 16, 2008
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Four students were brought home to Bermuda from Barbados after the mother of one reported that he had been robbed at gunpoint.
Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday that the woman contacted the National Training Board (NTB), which spo...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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Students at Saltus Grammar School are due to sit a mathematics exam at 6 a.m. today — becoming the first youngsters on the Island to face a new early start time laid down by England's biggest exam board to combat cheating.
Fifteen pupils in the senio...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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It's 9.30 a.m. at Whitney Institute and the assembly hall is abuzz with energy. About 400 primary school children from across the Island are grinning excitedly, dancing up and down on the spot to a hip-hop beat and loudly chanting the less-than-catch...
DATE: May 13, 2008
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Parents will get the chance to find out more about the reform of the public school system and ask questions of Education Minister Randy Horton this week.
Mr. Horton and his team are holding three meetings across the Island to update the public on the...
DATE: May 12, 2008
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A gasoline carrier was due to make a detour via the Island last night after a crew member injured his eye.
The Filipino man onboard the Kriti Champion, bound from Amsterdam to Brownsville, Texas, was set to be picked up at the pilot boat station in t...
DATE: May 12, 2008
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Three teens have completed a taxing two-week training course to qualify as junior lifeguards.
Princeton Bailey, Celine Collis and Jillian Rinehimer, all aged 15, are now equipped with the skills to save lives on the beach after graduating from a Red ...
DATE: May 12, 2008
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A wealthy yachtswoman who disappeared for three days in Bermuda after winning a sailing race has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling millions of dollars from investors.
Commodities trader Elizabeth Baldwin went missing after the 65ft mahogany sl...
DATE: May 12, 2008
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