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Flagstone Re boss Mark Byrne has been appointed chairman of a newly revamped and permanent Board of Education.
Belco President Vince Ingham is the new deputy chairman and other members include PLP MP Ashfield DeVent, businessman Darren Johnston and F...
DATE: Mar 09, 2009
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MPs have approved legislation which will allow Government to increase its overdraft from $15 million to more than $110 million this year.
The Temporary Loans Amendment Act 2009 was passed in the House of Assembly on Monday evening and will enable Gov...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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It costs almost four times as much to keep a prisoner at Westgate as to educate a child, Opposition MP Patricia Gordon-Pamplin claimed in Parliament this week.
The Shadow Works and Engineering Minister said a way of deploying resources more effective...
DATE: Mar 04, 2009
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The Berkeley Institute has defended its discipline standards after an e-mail was sent around the Island describing an alleged attack by one of its female students on a girl from Warwick Academy.
The incident at Hamilton Bus Terminal last Thursday, wh...
DATE: Feb 24, 2009
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Education got the second biggest chunk of Friday's Budget, with $149.1 million to be spent in the coming year.
The allocation — almost $6 million more than was budgeted for the Ministry in 2008/9 — will include extra spending on teacher training, the...
DATE: Feb 23, 2009
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Premier Ewart Brown has rejected a suggestion by Opposition Leader Kim Swan to extend this year's Budget debate and restrict the amount of time given to each MP to speak.
Mr. Swan wrote to Dr. Brown on January 30 with suggestions for how both politic...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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Bermuda can expect gale force weather today — but a repeat performance of Monday's severe storm is not expected.
Forecasters said last night that southwesterly winds would increase from late afternoon onwards from strong to gale force and would get w...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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A scheme to get Bermudians off the wall and into permanent work was launched yesterday by Labour Minister David Burch, with the backing of the construction industry.
Six firms have agreed to take on workers who have graduated from the Island's Hustle...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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The expert charged with transforming Bermuda's public schools is likely to leave the Island before his two-year contract runs out in June, The Royal Gazette has been told.
Three sources say that US consultant Henry Johnson — brought here on a $250,00...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009
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Johndell Cumberbatch is unlikely to ever forget how to spell exhilaration — his perfect execution of the word on Saturday night helped him win a Disney holiday for his family.
The eight-year-old East End Primary School pupil was the champion of Spell...
DATE: Feb 09, 2009
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