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JUST like in the movies, Bermuda now has its very own search and destroy team. That's right - Vector Control, located on Point Finger Road, has devised a targeted programme that focuses on locating and eliminating mosquito problems throughout the isl...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton returned to the drawing board last night after parents of Whitney Institute students shouted down the latest plan for the school.
The meeting, which was held in the Outerbridge Hall on the middle school's campus, was c...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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There are lots of stories and rumours floating around about Whitney Institute Middle School right now — and really it's no wonder.
Since the announcement by the board of trustees on May 19 that Whitney would close unless urgent repairs were carried o...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Government yesterday announced it will join a scheme helping to cut the cost of education for university students.
Premier Ewart Brown said the Government has accepted an invitation from the University of the West Indies to become a 'contributing cou...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Senators yesterday passed legislation to increase scholarship payments to students pursuing higher education both at home and abroad.
The Bermuda Government Scholarships Act 2008 was welcomed by all parties, with Opposition Senators even calling for ...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Parents are pulling their children out of Whitney Institute Middle School amid fears that the unsafe school will not reopen in September.
The Royal Gazette understands that the parents of as many as 20 students have applied for their offspring to beg...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Taxpayers have forked out more than $11,000 on US education expert Henry Johnson's trips home in the past eight months.
The $250,000-a-year consultant — brought to Bermuda last August to transform public schools — has flown business class back to the...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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A new poll shows only three out of every ten voters have a favourable impression of Premier Ewart Brown compared to more than seven in ten favouring Deputy Premier Paula Cox.
And the Progressive Labour Party is still ahead of the United Bermuda Party...
DATE: Jul 08, 2008
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The remains of a monster of the deep have washed ashore on Bermuda.
The head, tentacles and mantle of a deep sea squid were discovered at Grape Bay by beachcombers on Sunday. The find is rare as the squid inhabit depths of between 240-940 metres and ...
DATE: Jul 08, 2008
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Former Attorney General Larry Mussenden has stepped down as chairman of Bermuda College after 19 months in the post.
The Ministry of Education said it had accepted his resignation due to increased private commitments which meant he could not longer s...
DATE: Jul 07, 2008
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