634 results returned for search: "education AND " category "General"
A social justice campaigner yesterday said a public apology was needed before disadvantaged young Black men saw an improvement in their lives.
Martha Dismont added that the people of Bermuda had to play their part to tackle the root causes of inequal...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Interest in tracing family ancestry soared during the pandemic, according to the National Museum of Bermuda.
The museum’s online genealogy database was used more than ever in 2020, prompting the launch of the 2021 series “Tracing Their Roots/Routes”...
DATE: Nov 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Taxi Owners Association has named a new executive committee in the wake of the resignation of the group’s president and treasurer.
A spokeswoman for the organisation said in a press release that a special general meeting was called this m...
DATE: Nov 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Pupils and prisoners have been helped by a community group that launched campaigns to provide computers and books.
The Grateful Bread rallied supporters, who paid for 20 Chromebooks for children and donated boxes of books to Westgate inmates.
The gro...
DATE: Oct 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
It was a tumultuous scene – hundreds of euphoric students cheering their hero Flora Duffy as her motorcade wound through their school grounds.
As part of her welcome back to Bermuda tour, Flora visited her old school, Warwick Academy, and for some yo...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
People lined the roads to show their support for Olympic gold medal hero Flora Duffy when she returned home to Bermuda.
A motorcade made its way from the airport through eastern parishes, across to Warwick Academy via Darrell’s Wharf and back into Ha...
DATE: Oct 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The island’s Ombudsman is to step down next March after eight years in the role.
Victoria Pearman said she was proud of the work the office had carried out during her tenure – particularly faced with the “extraordinary challenges for us all” caused b...
DATE: Oct 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Women chosen for a charity-run course to help them change their lives completed it with new qualifications, increased confidence and employment.
Success stories from the Transformational Support Services programme even included the launch of a new bu...
DATE: Oct 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A charity leader said her organisation was an “outlet” for women who faced challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tina Laws, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, which is today launching a series of webinars, explained t...
DATE: Sep 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan