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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons labelled the Ministry of Education's progress on school reforms "too slow, too little, too late".
Dr. Gibbons spoke in the House of Assembly on Monday during the education Budget debate and said on the reform p...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Bermuda's schoolchildren should reap the benefits from being taught more about their local history, according to Government MP and former educator Lovitta Foggo.
Ms Foggo says the older generation was "cheated" because in years gone by schools focuse...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Government is attempting to re-negotiate a staff salary rise as it cuts its budget to the Bermuda College by four percent.
Education Minister El James told MPs last night: "In the 2010-11 academic year, the college will consider outsourcing some of i...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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Public schools receive the majority of the Ministry of Education budget $88.5 million, or 74 percent of the funds allocated, goes directly to their operation.
Education Minister El James said the schools' budget was decreased by $2.6 million for 2010...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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Premiums for private and public health insurance could rise after the House of Assembly agreed to a 13 percent increase in the Standard Hospital Benefit.
The $27 rise was branded "baffling" by Opposition spokeswoman Louise Jackson.
Last night in the ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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The Ministry of Education was forced to slash $6 million from its budget only "a day or two" before the 2010/11 Budget was printed.
Education Minister El James informed MPs of the move in the House of Assembly yesterday.
He said the cuts were mostly ...
DATE: Mar 16, 2010
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A 17-year-old Smith's man has been fined $2,000 and prohibited from driving for two years after he was caught behind the wheel of his mother's car while drunk.
Nicholas Chilvers pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to driving while disqualified by re...
DATE: Mar 15, 2010
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Bermuda's teen pregnancies are at the lowest point in two decades but the number of sexually transmitted diseases have increased.
According to Dr. Cheryl Peek-Ball, the Department of Health's Senior Medical Officer, the most recent Health Department ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2010
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A shuffle will take place among four primary schools as principals get moved and one retires.
The Ministry of Education announced the move yesterday morning.
Education Commissioner Wendy McDonell said the administrative transfers will take place in S...
DATE: Mar 13, 2010
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Politicians, local celebrities and business leaders were yesterday "locked-up" and put on trial to raise money for PRIDE Bermuda.
Last year the "Celebrity Lock-Up" event raised more than $50,000 for the drug-prevention charity and, according to PRIDE...
DATE: Mar 13, 2010
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