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By-election candidate Michael Weeks says it was a bittersweet moment to find he had been picked to replace his friend and mentor Minister Nelson Bascome in Pembroke South East.
But the lifelong Pembroke resident said he was determined to keep the lat...
DATE: Aug 18, 2009
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Gun crime and gang activity has soared. But why? Mirrors coordinator Kimberley Jackson has some clues
Alienated from their own communities but dangerously identified by them by enemy gangs that is the bizarre contradiction facing many teens trapped ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009
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Two more young Bermudians have joined the editorial staff of The Royal Gazette just as one more has come back from intensive journalism training in the UK.
Nadia Arandjelovic, aged 22, and Owain Johnston-Barnes, aged 27, have started as trainee journ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009
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El James has been reappointed Education Minister and was sworn-in at a ceremony at Government House this morning.
Mr. James lost his portfolio last month after publicly calling for Premier Ewart Brown to resign in the House of Assembly.
But insiders ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009
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Twenty four students who should have started senior school next month are being made to redo their final year of middle school after failing an exam.
Acting Education Minister Kim Wilson announced yesterday that the pupils were given three chances to...
DATE: Aug 15, 2009
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Scholarship awards worth $90,000 have been handed out to ten students planning to further their education overseas.
Erek Fox, Shaydrina Hassell, Jayné Smith and Antionay Tankard are all flying off to launch university careers after scooping grants fr...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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Funding constraints have forced the Ministry of Education to trim the planned number of assistant directors by more than half.
The Ministry originally had 13 assistant directors' posts but will now decrease the number to six.
The Ministry of Educatio...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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New community sports centre Sandys 360 is aiming to help train the Island's next top athletes.
There is also hope that the facility will help children excel in their studies math and English classes are taught to increase SAT scores and improve colle...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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Sixteen-year-old Tori Segourney Smith gave up hours of her free time to volunteer in the community because she could.
She's now the youngest ever recipient of a CableVision Community Service Award, and says it's all been worthwhile.
"I don't regret a...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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Michael Weeks' proud mother "just screamed and screamed and screamed" with excitement when she found out her son was the Progressive Labour Party's new MP-in-waiting.
Lois Weeks used to take young Michael to PLP meetings back in the 1960s when she wa...
DATE: Aug 13, 2009
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