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A “staggering” gap between public and private schools exists in some subjects, according to Darren Burchall, head of computer science at Bermuda High School and CEO of education firm Great4Learning.
Mr Burchall is aiming to bridge the knowledge divi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2017
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A businessman who ploughed $200,000 into renovations at a beach building later demolished by the Government is still in the dark over compensation.
Tom Steinhoff planned to transform the rundown concessions building at Shelly Bay at a cost of around...
DATE: Oct 26, 2017
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Desmond Crockwell, the creator of anti-violence magazine Visonz, has issued a rallying call to Bermuda’s sports and community clubs to take a more prominent role in ending gang violence.
Crockwell would also like to see more teachers, principals, co...
DATE: Oct 25, 2017
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Beautiful open spaces, farm fields and a historic building will be on show at the Bermuda National Trust’s second Farmfest event on Saturday.
The free family friendly event is due to take place at the Trust’s protected ten-acre property of Devondale ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2017
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The mother of Ricco Furbert, who was murdered in 2013, used an anti-violence event on Saturday to plead for help from the community to intervene in the life of another young man who she believes could suffer the same fate.
Nicole Fox spoke at the Pea...
DATE: Oct 23, 2017
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Bermuda ranks 13th for cocaine consumption out of 115 countries, according to a survey.
The statistics showed that 1.3 per cent of Bermuda residents used the drug — more than anywhere in the Caribbean region except the Dutch territory of Aruba, whic...
DATE: Oct 21, 2017
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Junior Minister of Finance Wayne Furbert has refused to say when he will retable his Parliamentary Bill to outlaw same-sex marriage.
It is the second time Mr Furbert has dodged questions on the status of his Private Member’s Bill.
Mr Furbert said sho...
DATE: Oct 21, 2017
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The Garden Club of Bermuda and Marian Manuel have awarded the Ed Manuel Memorial Scholarship to a student studying agriculture.
Malachi Symonds, who is studying at Earth University in Costa Rica, was given $7,000 to help fund his course.
A Garden Clu...
DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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Bermuda could be heading towards an agricultural revolution if the people behind a new gardening workshop have anything to do with it.
The Ministry of Health’s free Grow, Eat, Save Gardening Workshop has been hailed as one of the biggest community g...
DATE: Oct 20, 2017
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The Bermuda Union of Teachers has invited one of the original Freedom Writers — a group of teenagers disillusioned after the LA riots in 1992 — to be a keynote speaker at an education conference that starts today.
Manny Scott — who found hope through...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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