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A teenager has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for dealing crack cocaine.
Dajour Smith, 29, of Pembroke, was caught "red-handed" as he tried to run from Police, Magistrates' Court heard. Smith pleaded guilty on Thursday to possession of cocaine ...
DATE: Mar 30, 2009
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Energy use dropped 500 kilowatts during Earth Hour on Saturday night.
Organisers say the conservation awareness raised by the initiative is more important than the relatively slight amount of energy that was saved between 8.30 and 9.30 p.m.
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DATE: Mar 30, 2009
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Technical students are to learn their trades at Bermuda College thanks to a new partnership with the National Training Board.
The two publicly funded quangos have entered into an agreement to work together to help build up Bermuda's skilled labour fo...
DATE: Mar 30, 2009
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Independent Senator Walwyn Hughes has questioned why it's taken so long to put "absolute basic" principles in place for a good education system.
Good teaching in the classroom and a solid curriculum are among the new goals identified by Professor Dav...
DATE: Mar 27, 2009
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Junior Social Rehabilitation Minister Thaao Dill yesterday told how he has seen for himself how the Mirrors programme is changing young people's attitudes.
Speaking in the budget debate on the Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation, Sen. Dill ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2009
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has welcomed a plan to bring in an overseas curriculum for Bermuda's public schools.
The Opposition MP said adopting and adapting a proven curriculum from elsewhere would free up resources which could be spent ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2009
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Sam Strangeways
MPs are mulling whether to cut the waffle and get to the point in parliamentary debates.
The issue is one of a number of rule changes being looked at by a sub-committee headed by former Premier Dame Jennifer Smith and Opposition MP John Barritt.
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DATE: Mar 25, 2009
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Education Minister El James has a simple philosophy when it comes to managing people: "You get more with honey than you do with salt."
It's an apt belief for a man who keeps bees as a hobby and is so far, he believes, paying dividends in his new role...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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The Hopkins recommendations report card: Education Minister El James and Board of Education chairman Mark Byrne on how we are doing
• One: dramatically improve quality of teaching
El James: "We have made tremendous strides. As Hopkins stated, there a...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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Mark Byrne has mastered flying a plane and spearheading an international reinsurance company — and now he's turning his attention to overhauling Bermuda's beleaguered education system.
The new chairman of the Board of Education told The Royal Gazette...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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