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"Dumping Ground", the first adventure of Kiesha the Mermaid, appears today on Page 19. Part of The Royal Gazette's award-winning Newspapers in Education programme, the series of stories will run on Thursdays for the next six weeks.
Students are invit...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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The United Bermuda Party believes longer school days and an independent school inspector could help the flagging education system.
Speaking at a United Bermuda Party public meeting on education Dr. Grant Gibbons recommended that Bermuda look to chart...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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Employees should be drug tested to root out a culture of substance abuse plaguing workforces, campaigners told a public conference yesterday.
About 80 percent of Bermuda's chemically dependent people have jobs, according to Chris Backeberg of testing...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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A new Government study into young black males will be spearheaded by a Ivy League Professor. And the Premier hopes the $400,000 study will help the Government implement policies, programmes and legislation that will help bridge the gap between this s...
DATE: Sep 19, 2007
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Eighty-year-old Dr. Juanita Guishard has seen it all — from the introduction of integration in the workplace — to the introduction of illicit drugs to the Island more than 25 years ago.
To some, she embodies the struggles for equal opportunity for bl...
DATE: Sep 18, 2007
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A young man stole $510 from his former girlfriend in order to buy her an engagement ring. Jordan Smith, 20, admitted taking the cash from Kate Howarth, 18, so he could propose before she left to study abroad.
Explaining his conduct after pleading gui...
DATE: Sep 18, 2007
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The Island desperately needs more transitional living centres for addicts, particularly because the Island is filled with enablers, according to experts at a National Drug Control conference.
And members of the community dealing with addiction in the...
DATE: Sep 18, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has been visiting the Island's public schools with his sister, the new acting Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education.
Randy and Ellen-Kate Horton travelled to schools across the Island last week. On Friday, t...
DATE: Sep 17, 2007
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Recognising that race plays a role in the education system is the first step we can take to address the problem, an overseas expert said.
More than 100 people packed the North Hall Bermuda College theatre on Friday night for the third panel discussio...
DATE: Sep 17, 2007
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The Royal Gazette's Newspapers in Education programme kicks off the new school year with a series of short stories featuring 'Kiesha the Mermaid', adapted from the screen plays written by Bermudian author Daron Lowe. The Royal Gazette is joined in th...
DATE: Sep 17, 2007
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