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Salsa may be a traditional Latin dance but a group of performers from the Island gave it a distinctly Bermudian flavour when they took part in an international convention.A party of 17 from the Sabor Dance School travelled to Canada recently for the ...
DATE: May 12, 2007
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The Attorney General yesterday promised a raft of measures to modernise Bermuda’s criminal justice system including legislation to protect vulnerable victims and witnesses.
Senator Philip Perinchief told a conference that a change in the law was need...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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Two years ago, US businesswoman Tina Byles Williams was riding high as chief executive officer of pension plan advisors FIS Group, a Philadelphia-based company which counted the Government of Bermuda among its clients. But a fundraising lunch she org...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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A businesswoman accused of organising an alleged “pay-to-play” luncheon for the Premier in 2002 has launched a libel action in the US to clear her company’s name.
Tina Byles Williams (formerly Poitevien) is suing a trio of “disgruntled” former employ...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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Calls for an Island-wide feeding programme for hungry schoolchildren continue to grow — though not everyone believes the state should provide the solution.
The Royal Gazette reported last week on a group of volunteers from the Seventh-day Adventist C...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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Bermuda's headteachers have for years been sounding the same warnings as an expert team brought in tackle the failing education system, according to the president of the Association of School Principals.
Freddie Evans told The Royal Gazette that the ...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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The chairman of Berkeley Institute's board of governors said on Friday he was keen to hear more about an idea to join the school in a federation with CedarBridge Academy.
Calvin White told The Royal Gazette: "I do think it's an interesting concept an...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons yesterday declared a highly critical report on Bermuda’s public schools as a “complete indictment of the PLP’s management of the education system”.
The former Opposition Leader delivered his verdict a day after...
DATE: May 05, 2007
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The chairman of Bermuda’s “ineffective” board of education admitted yesterday that it lacked strength and welcomed proposals for it to be overhauled.
Raymond Tannock told The Royal Gazette he had shared his concerns with Professor David Hopkins - the...
DATE: May 05, 2007
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A tough talking critique of Bermuda's public schools system which calls for the dismantling and rebuilding of the "mismanaged" Ministry of Education was hailed as a welcome wake up call by teachers last night.
But Bermuda Union of Teachers president ...
DATE: May 04, 2007
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