712 results returned for search: "education AND " author Sam Strangeways
Independent MP Terry Lister has announced his retirement from politics after 21 years in Parliament.
His decision, revealed at a press conference in the House of Assembly library yesterday, will mean a by-election for constituency 33, Sandys South.
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DATE: Sep 23, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
The headteacher of Saltus Grammar School has declared herself “thrilled” with her students’ IGCSE results this year.
Claire Charlemagne said 122 students in years ten and 11 at the private school sat the exams and all achieved A* to G passes.
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DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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Education
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Sam Strangeways
The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
An MP’s daughter claimed in court yesterday that she was handcuffed and dragged along the floor to a police van after being “pepper sprayed” by officers on Front Street.
M’aeisha Weeks, daughter of Opposition politician Michael Weeks, told Senior Mag...
DATE: Aug 18, 2014
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Court
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Sam Strangeways
A forensic science graduate is appealing to the Island’s philanthropists to lend him $35,000 towards his doctoral studies.
Bermudian Mark Amaral has won a coveted place on a PhD course in security science at the University College London but found ou...
DATE: Aug 13, 2014
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The People’s Campaign has confirmed it will “engage in an escalating strategy” to get Government to resolve the issue of long-term residents gaining Bermudian status via a legal “loophole”.
But the group’s three leaders told The Royal Gazette they al...
DATE: Aug 07, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Premier Michael Dunkley has praised the accomplishments of more than two dozen private and public sector scholarship recipients at two awards ceremonies.
The National Security Minister took part in the 2014 Association of Bermuda International Compan...
DATE: Aug 04, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
An African studies programme for children which was axed by the Ministry of Education five years ago is making an independent comeback this summer.
Ashay: Rites of Passage, created by award-winning poet Mwalimu [master teacher] Melodye Micere Van Put...
DATE: Jun 25, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
A renowned scientist leading a study on Bermuda’s water quality has been killed in a landslide on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Quebec medical researcher Éric Dewailly, 59, was one of two people who died on Tuesday when a cliff above them colla...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Employers’ Council is to put extra effort into tackling sexual harassment after a poll revealed that a quarter of women and 18 percent of men have suffered it at work.
The survey, conducted by Global Research, asked 400 residents during telep...
DATE: May 20, 2014
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Sam Strangeways