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Whitney old boy Shaun Goater yesterday lamented the demise of his former school — and called for its trustees and the Ministry of Education to give it a stay of execution.
Mr. Goater says his time at Whitney Institute — where he met his wife Anita du...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School will close for good tomorrow, it was confirmed yesterday.
The Ministry of Education and the school's board conceded they had failed to end their row over repairs to Whitney's ageing building with each blaming the other...
DATE: Jun 25, 2008
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Government is spending close to $15 million a year on foreign consultants in seven ministries, the Opposition United Bermuda Party said yesterday.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards attacked what he described as a massive reliance on overseas exper...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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Schoolchildren must be taught black history to help Bermuda shed the legacy of segregation, anti-racism author Tim Wise told a meeting last night.
Mr. Wise attacked schools which teach about the discovery of the Island and the achievement of democrac...
DATE: Jun 12, 2008
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Money will no longer be a barrier to young people who want to study in Harvard, Princeton or Yale, Education Minister Randolph Horton pledged yesterday.
Speaking in a House of Assembly debate about revisions to Government's scholarship scheme, the Mi...
DATE: Jun 07, 2008
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Elliot Primary School and Francis Patton School have picked up awards for their efforts to promote good health.
Both were the main winners at the Healthy School Awards at Camden, with Health Minister Nelson Bascome handing out prizes.
Naming Francis ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2008
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Nine local charities received donations totalling nearly $500,000 from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation during the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008.
A statement from the foundation, which has donated more than $39.3 millionsince 198...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School appears to have been saved after the Ministry of Education said it had reached an agreement with the board of trustees.
At the beginning of this week, trustees had written to the Ministry to announce the school would p...
DATE: May 23, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer unless Government can come up with an emergency plan to renovate its termite-infested ageing building.
The school's trustees have written to the Ministry of Education to say they are not prepared...
DATE: May 20, 2008
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Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer, its board of trustees told the Ministry of Education today, The Royal Gazette understands.
Staff are said to be angry with the increasingly dilapidated state of the building and no longer consid...
DATE: May 19, 2008
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