707 results returned for search: "education AND " author Sam Strangeways
Bermuda can follow the example of other countries in making health care more accessible and less expensive, Health Minister Zane DeSilva said yesterday.
Mr DeSilva delivered a stinging attack on the way health care has been funded in Bermuda as he la...
DATE: Feb 12, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
The Department of Planning has accused construction firm BCM McAlpine of “abusing” its efforts to facilitate emergency foreshore work at an Opposition MP’s home.
But company president Alan Burland refuted the claim and questioned why planners didn’t ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2011
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Contractors have been ordered to stop building a sea wall at the home of Opposition MP Grant Gibbons a week before it was due to be finished.
Alan Burland, president of BCM McAlpine, told The Royal Gazette he was “surprised and annoyed” to receive th...
DATE: Feb 02, 2011
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A teacher who claims she was made seriously ill by mould at CedarBridge Academy is suing the Ministry of Education and the school's board of governors.
Lawyers for Somerset mother-of-three and grandmother Wendy Robinson appeared before a judge on Fri...
DATE: Jan 31, 2011
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Education
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Sam Strangeways
Young boys are selling drugs in schools, becoming desensitised to gun violence and getting more sophisticated in their dealings with police, an educator told parliamentarians yesterday.
Lisa Trott, a counsellor at Whitney Institute Middle School, tol...
DATE: Jan 28, 2011
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Education
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Sam Strangeways
Gang members are enrolling at Bermuda's Adult Education Centre to gain their GEDs and, in some cases, learn to read and write.
Young men are using the facility both to try to better themselves educationally and to stay off the streets and out of trou...
DATE: Jan 28, 2011
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Education
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Sam Strangeways
Educators in Bermuda are "constantly bombarded" with inappropriate behaviour, a school therapist told MPs today.
Shacolbi Basden told the joint select committee on violent crime and gun violence the behaviour included bad language, blatant disrespect...
DATE: Jan 26, 2011
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A grassroots movement based in Bermuda’s gang heartland has won an award for its efforts to help rebuild a community torn apart by violence.
One Community Unified a collaboration of churches, police and other organisations in east Pembroke was presen...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell has been tasked with improving teaching and learning in public schools almost four years after a team of experts raised the alarm about standards.
Mrs McDonnell will give up her role running the Department of Ed...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A Serbian teacher caught up in a lengthy legal battle with Government has been jailed for three months apparently for failing to pay rent to a private landlady.
Dragana Damljanovic is in the Co-Ed Facility at Ferry Reach, according to charity campai...
DATE: Jan 06, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
