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If schoolchildren could vote they might not be too keen on one of the United Bermuda Party's ideas for educational reform — longer school days.
But Grant Gibbons, the party's education spokesman, insists that extending the day to 5 p.m. or 5.30 p.m. ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Keisha Douglas knows her stuff when it comes to public schools.
The new president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has worked in education for 13 years, mainly as a teacher but also as a mathematics adviser at the Ministry of Education.
She was made ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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The Progressive Labour Party made a pledge to voters in 1998 before sweeping to power in a historic General Election.
The party's manifesto said: "Accountability and transparency will be the underlying credo for the priorities, principles and policie...
DATE: Dec 13, 2007
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The Progressive Labour Party made a pledge to voters in 1998 before sweeping to power in a historic General Election.
The party's manifesto said: "Accountability and transparency will be the underlying credo for the priorities, principles and policie...
DATE: Dec 13, 2007
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The Progressive Labour Party unveiled its election manifesto yesterday with pledges to provide free day care for Bermudian families, free bus and ferry rides for all and improved health insurance for seniors.
Premier Ewart Brown told party supporters...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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The Island's best and brightest students will be rewarded with a free university education, the Progressive Labour Party has promised.
Education Minister Randy Horton told party supporters at Alaska Hall yesterday that Government scholarships would b...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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Opposition Leader Michael Dunkley last night hit out at a video posted on the YouTube Internet site in which a former narcotics chief alleges that he may have been involved in a drugs conspiracy.
The ten-minute interview with retired superintendent L...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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The Island's best and brightest students will be rewarded with a free university education, the Progressive Labour Party has promised.
Education Minister Randy Horton told party supporters at Alaska Hall yesterday that Government scholarships would b...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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A conference of educators from all over the Caribbean will hear today a claim that Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) has been left out of the reform of the Island's public schools despite asking to be included.
The allegation is made in a report which ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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A former CedarBridge Academy teacher told yesterday how working at the school destroyed his health and led him to believe he was "heading for the grave".
Leonard Tucker, who is preparing to move to the US to seek medical help, is the first staff memb...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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