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A drug smuggler who admitted to importing more than $150,000 worth of cocaine was yesterday sent to jail for eight years.
Saki Tuzo, of Boundary Lane, Devonshire, pleaded guilty at an earlier Supreme Court hearing to importing 587.83 grams of the con...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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A new educational and cultural partnership has been formed between Bermuda and the US, it was announced on sunday.
The link, called the "Bermuda Exchange for Mutual Understanding" has been approved by the US State Department following talks between P...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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The PLP has won the General Election.
Like 2003 the results were 22 seats for the PLP and 14 seats to the UBP — though four changed hands.
In the biggest shock of the election former Opposition leader Michael Dunkley lost his bid to unseat Patrice Mi...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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Keisha Douglas knows her stuff when it comes to public schools.
The new president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has worked in education for 13 years, mainly as a teacher but also as a mathematics adviser at the Ministry of Education.
She was made ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has a goal and it's one he believes can be achieved by the time the next general election comes around.
"We now have about 40 percent of children in public schools," he said. "I'm looking at by then to have 70 percent ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Freshmen from Princeton have visited the Island to get a first-hand look at how climate change could affect the oceans.
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) hosted 12 students for the seminar 'Signals, Yardsticks and Tipping Points of Globa...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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If schoolchildren could vote they might not be too keen on one of the United Bermuda Party's ideas for educational reform — longer school days.
But Grant Gibbons, the party's education spokesman, insists that extending the day to 5 p.m. or 5.30 p.m. ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has a goal and it's one he believes can be achieved by the time the next general election comes around.
"We now have about 40 percent of children in public schools," he said. "I'm looking at by then to have 70 percent ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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Much has been said about how young voters will affect this election but little has been heard about the gender factor — yet there are nearly 2,800 more female Bermudian voters than male voters according to 2000 census figures.
And while the Parliamen...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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The Voters' Rights Association has criticised Government for failing to engage in public debate with the UBP on issues affecting the Island.
VRA co-chairman Geoff Parker Sr. claimed the reason why the Premier turned down a televised 'Leaders Debate' ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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