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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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Four of Bermuda’s public schools are failing and most of the others are merely satisfactory or worse, according to what Premier Ewart Brown last night dubbed the “most meaningful and comprehensive” review ever conducted of the education system.
The h...
DATE: May 04, 2007
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A new scholarship for medical students in honour of Dr. James King has been launched by Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB).
Medical practitioner and community leader Dr. King retired as chairman of the bank’s board last month. The bi-...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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Opposition MPs last night called on Education Minister Randy Horton to immediately publish in full the results of an independent inquiry into the CedarBridge mould crisis.
Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson and UBP backbencher Grant Gibbons said t...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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Bermuda College will run an intensive technical adult education programme this summer - to combat what it described yesterday as a looming "crisis" in the Island's technical trades.
Llewellyn Trott, the college's associate vice president of technical...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Government has no plans to introduce a feeding programme for children who go without food before school and believes breakfast-skipping may not be connected to poverty.
Jennifer Attride-Stirling, the Government’s health promotion co-ordinator, told T...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Government is being urged to launch an Island-wide programme for underfed schoolchildren by a group of volunteers who provide breakfast and lunch for 30 hungry youngsters each weekday.
The five women - all members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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It’s changed my life, it’s completely changed my life,” says Bermudian artist Peter Lapsley of his move to New York to study for a masters degree in fine arts at Parsons New School for Design.The 30-year-old former gallery director of Bermuda Society...
DATE: Apr 28, 2007
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