712 results returned for search: "education AND " author 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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AUTHOR:
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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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
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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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
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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CATEGORY:
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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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith called yesterday for better results from those working to prevent Bermuda’s at risk children falling into gang crime.
He told the joint select committee on violent crime and gun violence that “legislatively b...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Former Police Commissioner Jonathan Smith called yesterday for better results from those working to prevent Bermuda’s at risk children falling into gang crime.
He told the joint select committee on violent crime and gun violence that “legislatively b...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Bermuda should legalise marijuana, bring in a minimum wage and spend more money supporting talented young athletes and musicians, MPs were told.
Graeme Outerbridge and Ras Mykkal two citizens concerned about the Island’s spiralling crime rate gave pr...
DATE: Nov 29, 2010
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
HM Customs has at least 20 vacancies for officers but is struggling to find recruits who can pass the entrance exam — even though standards have been lowered.
Bermuda's Collector of Customs Winniefred Fostine-DeSilva told a joint parliamentary select...
DATE: Nov 26, 2010
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A successful seven-year bid by Bermuda College to gain recognition from an American accrediting body and become the "envy" of the region was loudly celebrated yesterday.
Town Crier Ed Christopher kicked off the party in the college courtyard and late...
DATE: Nov 25, 2010
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
