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Politicians should be stopped from making racial comments in public, according to two thirds of people who responded to an opinion poll.
Research.bm asked 402 people whether they agreed with the statement: ?Political leaders should be censored when m...
DATE: Jun 26, 2006
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A teenager accused of killing the two sons of a Bermuda Police officer has been released on bail following a court hearing in Barbados.
Yuri Fidel Agard is charged with the manslaughter of Justin and William Greene, aged 21 and 25, who died from stab...
DATE: Jun 26, 2006
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An Island private school has become the first outside Canada to receive official accreditation by the Canadian Educational Standards Institute (CESI).
Ten assessors from the institute visited Somersfield Academy in Devonshire in April and decided tha...
DATE: Jun 23, 2006
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Fed-up students, whose sports field floods whenever it rains, took to the streets yesterday morning to protest at the Government?s alleged failure to fix the problem.
Pupils from Dellwood Middle School waved placards and sang the gospel standard ?Wad...
DATE: Jun 22, 2006
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A union chief has criticised the chairman of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) for attacking civil servants over the Government body?s failure to produce annual reports for the past four years.
Armell Thomas, president of the Bermuda Public Services ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2006
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A union leader has warned that civil servants may demand extra cash if MPs get a proposed hefty pay hike.
Armell Thomas, president of the Bermuda Public Services Union (BPSU), told The Royal Gazette that plans to increase politicians' salaries could ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2006
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One of the candidates vying to become the next president of Bermuda College has hired her own public relations firm.
Dr. Larita Alford, who lost out on the same job to American Dr. Charles Green in 2004, is being represented by Troncossi PR Consultan...
DATE: Jun 16, 2006
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A union leader warned last night that teachers could stage industrial action before the end of this term after scores of them stayed away from the Island's public schools yesterday. understands that between 40 and 50 teachers failed to show at five o...
DATE: Jun 15, 2006
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Bermuda's public schools could be brought to a standstill in September if a threatened strike by teachers goes ahead.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) has given the Ministry of Education 21 working days notice of strike action after claiming that ...
DATE: Jun 14, 2006
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The fate of the civil servant who heads the Human Rights Commission (HRC) is likely to be decided in the next few weeks, can reveal.
A report on David Wilson, executive officer of the HRC, is expected to be passed to John Drinkwater, the secretary to...
DATE: Jun 14, 2006
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