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Premier Ewart Brown is calling on the Island’s youth to consider the many opportunities within the hospitality industry.
“Tourism is turning around,” he said on Friday as hundreds of middle and secondary school students gathered at BAA field for the ...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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The man in charge of maintaining CedarBridge Academy for the last seven years claimed yesterday he had been made a “fall guy” by the panel which probed the school’s mould crisis.
Ross Smith, 41, told The Royal Gazette his name had been “scandalised” ...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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* 1992: Decision taken to restructure public school system — including the building of a new senior secondary “mega school” at Prospect on the site of the old Devonshire Academy.
* Jan 1994: Plan for $55 million, 200,000-square-foot school unveiled b...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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An independent report into the CedarBridge Academy mould crisis was described last night as a “study in negligence and gross mismanagement” by Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons.
The former Opposition Leader said the damning document — produced ...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton has announced measures to overhaul his Ministry and implement the reforms of the Hopkins Report.
Action to ‘radically reform the Ministry of Education’ was one of ten recommendations in a damning review of Bermuda’s pu...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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It was conceived in the early 1990s as a flagship “mega school” at the heart of a massive reform of public education in Bermuda. But CedarBridge Academy, badly built and never properly looked after according to a hard-hitting report released last we...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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The UBP has defended its right to scrutinise the Premier’s travel expenses as the row over how he spent $287,000 in ten months deepens.
Last night a breakdown in costs was still unavailable but the Premier has not disputed that he and his entourage t...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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As a man who began as a pot washer, restaurant chain boss Philip Barnett has little patience with those who expect employers to hand them plum jobs despite their lack of experience.Now president of the Island Restaurant Group, which includes the Pick...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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*A comprehensive, scientific study of the health of all those at CedarBridge should be conducted to determine whether mould or poor indoor air quality is to blame for “the many cases of illness”. Data collection and analysis for health-based absences...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Key findings of the panel tasked with getting to the bottom of CedarBridge Academy’s mould crisis:
The panel spoke to 14 students with respiratory problems and other allergies and concluded that they were “very probably” caused by exposure to mould....
DATE: May 26, 2007
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