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Students could get the chance to try their hand at 12 different trades in their first year at senior school if an idea for a more "blended" education system is adopted.
A working party advising the interim executive board on education has proposed th...
DATE: Dec 04, 2008
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Government has awarded 1,100 blue collar workers a five percent pay rise with members getting back-dated pay to January 1 this year.
Bermuda Industrial Union President Chris Furbert said yesterday: "Membership ratified the agreement for five percent....
DATE: Dec 04, 2008
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Former Attorney General Phil Perinchief yesterday lambasted both political parties for failing to fix Bermuda's education system — and unveiled his own radical plan for change.
The outspoken former senator — who lost his Cabinet post after the last G...
DATE: Dec 03, 2008
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Colin Palmer is a man on a mission. His plan? To create a technical school which will build a Bermudian workforce proficient in all trades for the future.
The former teacher and college lecturer is passionate enough to have written an 80,000 word boo...
DATE: Dec 01, 2008
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Government MP Ashfield DeVent has claimed guns are routinely imported with drugs as he urged society to get a grip on the problem amid escalating violence.
He told the House on Friday: "Generally I have been told that a shipment of drugs doesn't ente...
DATE: Dec 01, 2008
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Bermudians should be offended and insulted by Britain's plan to investigate the Island's financial regime, said Premier Ewart Brown yesterday as he again banged the drum for Independence.
The review, announced by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alista...
DATE: Nov 29, 2008
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On Thursday the voters of Southampton West Central will choose a new MP. Here United Bermuda Party candidate Charlie Swan says why he is taking nothing for granted, despite being on home turf.
Having his former leader Wayne Furbert publicly criticise...
DATE: Nov 28, 2008
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Students from around the Island gathered at Bermuda College to compete in the 19th Annual Victoria Cox Memorial Senior and Middle School Debate Tournament.
Sixteen teams of three members each – separated into middle and senior school divisions – cont...
DATE: Nov 28, 2008
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Teen killed in road accident
A TEENAGE motorcyclist became the island's 14th road fatality of 2008 on Monday, which was also his 19th birthday. Officers reported that around 3 p.m., David Small Jr., was on a motorcycle travelling west along Warwick ...
DATE: Nov 28, 2008
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A CedarBridge Academy student took home top honours in the annual Tom Pettit Thanksgiving Essay Competition yesterday.
Falconeri Bacabac, III, hails originally from a small town on Panay Island in the Philippines, but has lived in Bermuda since he wa...
DATE: Nov 27, 2008
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