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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons is calling on Government to fulfil its promise to release in full a damning report on the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Randy Horton has promised that the document — penned by UK professor David H...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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The independent review into Bermuda’s failing public education system cost almost a quarter of a million dollars, it has emerged.
Education Minister Randy Horton, in answer to parliamentary questions from former Opposition leader Grant Gibbons, revea...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Premier Ewart Brown’s “lavish” lifestyle last night came under fire after he and his entourage spent more than $280,000 of taxpayers’ money on overseas trips in a ten-month period.
Dr. Brown racked up a $23,000 hotel bill during a one-week stay in Lo...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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An ill-tempered debate at the close of business in the House of Assembly saw more than the usual amount of highly-charged rhetoric bounce off the walls of the chamber.
Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson started off by re-igniting her long-running ...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Grant Gibbons is clearly, like all of the Island’s politicians, in election mode right now. Newly appointed as Shadow Education Minister, he has a lot to say about how he would improve Bermuda’s in-crisis public school system — and plenty of blame to...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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MORE wind, no change, Mr. Editor, last week on the House on the Hill. Ok, Ok, colleagues, the assessment might be a mite harsh, but there was after all only the one item of business for the day: some amendments to the Public Service Superannuation Ac...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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Teachers have branded an education review which called for an overhaul of schools as “unfair”.
Members of the Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) revealed a mixed reaction to the Hopkins Report when it held a general meeting. According to acting union pr...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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An act bringing in payroll tax breaks for businesses in North Hamilton was passed with all party support yesterday in a bid to spread wealth opportunities to those previously marginalised in the economy.
However the Opposition harried the Government ...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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AS if he doesn' t have enough on his plate trying to solve all of the problems facing Bermuda, Premier Brown has called for sweeping changes in the way his political party selects Parliamentary candidates. In a completely unrelated story, it turns ou...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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THE Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) is offering a series of camps this summer to youngsters interested in learning more about the art of filmmaking. Open to kids between the ages of seven and 16 years, the camps are designed to expose part...
DATE: May 19, 2007
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