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Thousands of children are to be quizzed on their sex lives, diet, stress levels, alcohol consumption and fitness as part of a Government teen health survey.
The study will ask about 5,000 youngsters aged between 11 and 18 a series of questions about ...
DATE: Sep 15, 2006
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When The Berkeley Institute opens the doors to its new $121 million building on Monday, the school?s supporters will be hoping that the stage has been set for the Island?s future leaders to flourish. Certainly, there can be no question that Berkeley,...
DATE: Sep 10, 2006
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Former students of the Berkeley Institute are being challenged by the chairman of the school?s board of governors to support their alma mater by sending their children to the school.
Calvin White claims that Bermuda?s black community deserted Berkele...
DATE: Sep 08, 2006
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The Government was last night accused of failing to properly consult the public about its plan to build a new $500 million hospital in the heart of the Botanical Gardens.
The Sustainable Development Round Table ? the independent team tasked with gath...
DATE: Sep 05, 2006
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Premier Alex Scott described new Education Minister Neletha Butterfield yesterday as having ?an almost unmatchable personal passion and dedication? to helping young people and all Bermudians.
He told a press conference at Government House that the wo...
DATE: Sep 03, 2006
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New Education Minister Neletha Butterfield described herself yesterday as "pleased" with her new position, adding that she not see it as a promotion but as an opportunity to further serve her country.
The former Senator and mother-of-three, who only ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2006
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Ousted Home Affairs Minister Randy Horton admitted yesterday that he was shocked and saddened by the Premier?s decision to move him to the Ministry of Environment in favour of union firebrand Derrick Burgess.
An ashen-faced Mr. Horton quoted Winston ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2006
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Opposition MPs have renewed calls for an arbitration hearing between Government and the contractor initially hired to build the new Berkeley Institute to be held in public.
Shadow Finance Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin said yesterday that the decis...
DATE: Sep 01, 2006
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Students who fail to make the grade at Berkeley Institute will be stopped from moving up to the next year group with their classmates in a bid to improve the school?s graduation rate.
Principal Michelle Simmons said yesterday that the school was drop...
DATE: Sep 01, 2006
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Inspirational US teacher Ron Clark is to speak at a one-day conference aimed at galvanising all those working in Bermuda?s public education system, can reveal.
Rosemary Tyrrell, the Ministry of Education?s new Permanent Secretary, has organised the e...
DATE: Aug 28, 2006
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