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Staff and PTA executives at Gilbert Institute are holding an emergency meeting to come up with an action plan they hope will save the school from closure.
The Paget school is the island’s only one that provides services for the deaf and hard-of-hear...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The virtues of traditional marriage versus equal rights for all prompted plenty of discussion as pressure group Preserve Marriage held its “peaceful demonstration” yesterday lunchtime.
Hundreds packed the grounds of the Cabinet Building as the group ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The financial viability of reorganising the island’s primary school system remains unknown as the Bermuda Government-commissioned Score report indicates it was “unable to make an assessment of potential cost savings”.
According to the school reorgan...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Shadow health minister Lovitta Foggo has branded the Bermuda Government’s plan to potentially close schools as “foolhardy, reckless and irresponsible”.
Ms Foggo was responding to the release this Monday of the full, 196-page school reorganisation (Sc...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Four primary schools could face closure as part of the Bermuda Government’s School Reorganisation (Score) Plan but no decisions have yet been made.
Parents and teachers yesterday voiced concerns over the possible closures of Gilbert Institute, Prospe...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Poultry Fanciers Society is to hold its annual competition this month and the deadline for entrants is today.
The event is due to take place at the Jack King Building in the Botanical Gardens on February 19, 20 and 21 and will include tu...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Primary students got to “play dentist” as part of a fun and educational programme run by Kerin Oral Care.
As part of the practice’s Give Kids a Smile Day, the children learnt about oral hygiene and nutrition, and even got to dress up as dentists.
Eac...
DATE: Feb 06, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Pressure group Preserve Marriage Bermuda has urged the Bermuda Government to call a referendum on same-sex marriage.
About 70 representatives of the “active task force” held a press conference in the Office Suite Solutions building in Mill Creek yest...
DATE: Feb 05, 2016
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A special delegates’ conference to determine the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party could be on the cards as the required minimum number of branches have signed up in support.
It is also understood that 11 African Methodist Episcopal churches...
DATE: Feb 04, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Community leaders are planning a series of events to mark the 400th anniversary of the first people of colour to arrive and remain in Bermuda.
They want to recognise their great contributions to the island since the first “Indian and Negro” arrived a...
DATE: Feb 03, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan