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Bermuda?s public school pupils? reading, mathematics and language skills have improved somewhat since 1999/2000 ? but are still below the average of 50 percent.
This is one of the main findings of the results of the past year?s Terra Nova exams.
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DATE: Nov 03, 2005
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It will be all eyes on the Throne Speech tomorrow but it is still unclear whether Government will carry out its promise to bring in legislation outlawing discrimination against gays.
Last year Community Affairs and Sports Minister Dale Butler promise...
DATE: Nov 03, 2005
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Premier Alex Scott has appointed Wayne Perinchief to head a new National Drug Control Ministry to combat the scourge of illegal narcotics.
The Premier said drugs are the driving force behind crime in Bermuda and the new Ministry was a bold, innovativ...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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The mother of a five-year-old Francis Patton pupil is questioning why the school principal ?strapped? her son.
Now the Department of Education is looking into the matter. The mother, who simply wanted to be known as Mrs. Dill, said a few weeks ago he...
DATE: Nov 02, 2005
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The United Bermuda Party is heading for victory at the next election believes leader Grant Gibbons ? despite polls which indicate the ruling Progressive Labour Party is still ahead.
The most recent poll of 403 people by Walton Brown?s Research Innova...
DATE: Oct 31, 2005
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Opposition leader Grant Gibbons has renewed his call for an early referendum on independence ? but he has refused to say how he will vote.
Calling it an issue of confidence he said it was not up to the UBP to tell its voters how they should vote on i...
DATE: Oct 31, 2005
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The Minister of Education?s initiative to rename middle schools by May 2006 has received a mixed response from both teachers and parents.
Minister Terry Lister hopes to rename Dellwood Middle School, Spice Valley Middle School and Clearwater Middle S...
DATE: Oct 31, 2005
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A teacher alleged to have hit a young girl at a special needs school has broken her silence, telling she feels that she has been ?unrelentingly persecuted? by the school and a number of parents.
Laura Delgaty spoke out as the controversy over her con...
DATE: Oct 29, 2005
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In a hard hitting speech last night Premier Alex Scott warned there could soon be more Cabinet sackings if Ministers fail to perform.
The bombshell came after the recent axing of Works and Engineering and Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent who was repl...
DATE: Oct 28, 2005
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Progressive Labour Party supporters who back the bar on Opposition hopeful Gina Spence Farmer sitting in the Senate have short memories according to the Bermuda Public Services Union.
General Secretary Edward Ball has pointed out that for years the P...
DATE: Oct 28, 2005
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