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@rgquote:Home schooling has been thrust into the limelight this week after Government announced plans to enforce restrictions on the number of students they could take. Reporter Karen Smith went to just one of the Island's many home schools to find o...
DATE: Jun 05, 2002
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A parent has spoken out in favour of Government's plan to impose tighter restrictions on home schools after claiming that her experience of the alternative schooling was a bad one.
The mother, who works in a public school but who did not wish to be n...
DATE: Jun 05, 2002
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Sanders Frith Brown, a Bermudian who calls himself black because he says he is one thirty-second black, said: “The British flag is a symbol in this little piece of England, but we are far too American to be British.
“The monarchy is a figure head and...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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Government school teacher Leisa Smith is leaving public education this month after becoming "frustrated" and "appalled" with the system.
The primary school teacher is leaving her job to set up her own home school because she said she believed too man...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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A 16-year-old youth found in possession of cocaine was given a stern warning in court about the life-long effects of drugs.
The Pembroke teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in court for review having failed three random drug tests ea...
DATE: Jun 03, 2002
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Parents and teachers involved in home schools are launching a fight today over Government plans to get tough on the way they operate.
A petition has been launched, which they hope to present to Minister of Education and Development Paula Cox outside ...
DATE: Jun 03, 2002
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The black Bermudian who fought in the American Civil War with the first coloured regiment in the United States has been revealed as Robert John Simmons, who is thought to have been from St. George's.
The Royal Gazette reported on Wednesday that a new...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Portuguese rights activist Robert Pires yesterday welcomed a decision by Bermuda College to include a person of Portuguese descent as an honourary fellow.
Bermuda Electric Light Company president Garry Madeiros became only the second person from the ...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Minister for Education and Development Paula Cox last night urged parents and schools to put talented students forward for a new programme for academic excellence.
Ms Cox said she fully supported the newly-formed Institute for Talented Students in Be...
DATE: May 30, 2002
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Foreign workers are propping up the Island's contributory pensions scheme, the Senate was reminded yesterday.
"It's a strange fact that nobody seems to appreciate. We've got an economy that cannot be staffed (fully) by the Bermudian population," said...
DATE: May 30, 2002
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