234 results returned for search: "education AND " author Scott Neil
Kristin Loving and Jevone Morrissey have been selected to receive the 2007 Bermuda Aviation Education Awards.
The awards have been designed to provide opportunities for employees and their dependents to further their education through either vocation...
DATE: Aug 22, 2007
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Two teenagers are about to embark on university and college education courses in North America with the help of an equal share in a $15,000 scholarship from the HWP Group.
Elkeisha Caisey and Cyniqua Anderson, both 18, have been given the perfect sta...
DATE: Jul 27, 2007
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Eight of Bermuda's brightest students who plan to make careers in the insurance industry have been presented with scholarships totalling $428,000 from the Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies (BFIS).
The scholarship amounts range from $30,000 a y...
DATE: Jul 23, 2007
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There are 19 mechanics at HWP Group but only two are Bermudian.
That is going to change as the company has started its own apprenticeship scheme that will, within five years, produce enough trained mechanics to do away with the need for the company t...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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When it comes to stock exchanges Bermuda is quite a few notches ahead of its southern competitor the Cayman Islands — as has been borne out by a lament from a Cayman's business commentator.
The Cayman Stock Exchange is celebrating its 10th anniversar...
DATE: Jun 27, 2007
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International business leaders in Bermuda are being urged to get involved in helping turn around the Island's failing public education system and give direct mentoring and guidance to young people through programmes such as Big Brothers Big Sisters.
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DATE: Jun 20, 2007
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It has to be one of the more surprising sights for customers popping into A.S. Cooper and Sons main store on Front Street — a Wedgwood potter busily throwing pots and preparing delicate clay moulds of shells and other Bermuda images.
For the rest of ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2007
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The site of the former NASA station at Cooper's Island could once more become Bermuda's link to outer space.
The out-of-bounds area of buildings and infrastructure abandoned by the US space agency when it left the Island in 2001 is being viewed as on...
DATE: May 09, 2007
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Imagine sitting on a boat 10 miles offshore when your office phone starts to ring. Unless you are telepathic and also have 10-mile long arms you are going to miss the call, right? Wrong.
Or at least not necessarily, because if you have a new piece of...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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A limited survey of how much money was donated to local charities by Bermuda-based companies during the past year has shown that 20 gave a combined total of $18.3 million.
That amount represents only a portion of the total amount given by on-Island c...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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