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Students who fail to make the grade at Berkeley Institute will be stopped from moving up to the next year group with their classmates in a bid to improve the school?s graduation rate.
Principal Michelle Simmons said yesterday that the school was drop...
DATE: Sep 01, 2006
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Disgruntled trade unionists have decided to take part in this year?s Labour Day march ? despite frustration about it always being organised by the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU).
The Trades Union Congress (TUC), an umbrella body representing eight or...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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Deputy Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley is calling on Police to keep crime victims fully briefed after a series of burglaries around the Island.
Mr. Dunkley said he had received numerous calls from members of the public whose homes had been broken i...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006
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Inspirational US teacher Ron Clark is to speak at a one-day conference aimed at galvanising all those working in Bermuda?s public education system, can reveal.
Rosemary Tyrrell, the Ministry of Education?s new Permanent Secretary, has organised the e...
DATE: Aug 28, 2006
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Customs officer Diallo Sharrieff was wrongly suspended from his job and never had any intention of keeping $900 he took from an ATM machine, his lawyer claimed last night.
Charles Richardson told that his client did remove the money from the Capital ...
DATE: Aug 25, 2006
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Government is still considering introducing legislation to ban drivers from using cell phones, the Attorney General said last night.
Larry Mussenden?s comments came after Police issued a statement saying that motorists who talk on their cell phones w...
DATE: Aug 25, 2006
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A suspended Customs officer who was investigated by Police for allegedly using a cash card belonging to someone else to withdraw hundreds of dollars from an ATM machine has returned to work.
Sources told that Diallo Sharrieff admitted the theft to P...
DATE: Aug 24, 2006
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Taxi drivers who are still not turning on new mandatory high-tech satellite navigation equipment have been urged by Government to observe ?both the letter and spirit of the law?. revealed last week that as many as 250 drivers from the Island?s larges...
DATE: Aug 24, 2006
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Experts from the UK are to be brought to the Island to help set up short-term drug treatment programmes for offenders ? after a scheme run by a Bermudian was axed.
Kuni Frith-Black, of Paget, ran the Alternative Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP) at We...
DATE: Aug 22, 2006
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Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Wole Soyinka and Andrew Young, the former US Ambassador to the UN, have been named as among those appearing at an international heritage conference taking place on the Island next month.
The second African Diaspora Heritage T...
DATE: Aug 18, 2006
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