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while carefully sending their children to private ones (which Mr. Gore and George W. Bush both attended). Why not give less-lucky students a break? Tax-financed vouchers to help pay for private schools deserve to be tried, not necessarily in all dist...
DATE: Sep 01, 2000
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We pause once a year to reflect on the outstanding contribution made to this country by labour. We will have a banquet, road race, a march and a victory celebration at Bernard Park. All of this is well and good but we have yet to really highlight the...
DATE: Aug 30, 2000
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schools as substitute teachers, it has been revealed.
Government regularly employs people to stand in as substitute teachers and permits them to teach a variety of subjects, provided they have some kind of university degree.
Education Minister Milton...
DATE: Aug 28, 2000
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Bermuda's growing number of elderly people is perhaps the biggest challenge facing politicians today. By 2011 seniors will make up 11.3 percent of the populations -- more that double the 1991 figure -- putting a burden on the work force to pay for th...
DATE: Aug 26, 2000
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Chronic self neglect is causing seniors to suffer amputations, according to Age Concern Executive Director Claudette Fleming.
And she is calling for more community social workers to be appointed in order to stop further tragedies occurring.
She said:...
DATE: Aug 23, 2000
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how many elderly people are forced to live in poverty in order to pay for rocketing prices in medication. Seniors hit by financially crippling medicine costs can look forward to cheaper medicine under proposals put forward by consultants and backed b...
DATE: Aug 22, 2000
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Recently, the Leader of the Opposition, Pamela Gordon, introduced a motion in the House of Assembly calling for mandatory random drug testing of Members of Parliament. Undoubtedly, a bold motion. The motion was also symbolic and its intended effects ...
DATE: Aug 21, 2000
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by his son Robert Zuill. Mr. Zuill, 68, was the owner of the Bermuda book Store and a long time trustee of the Whitney Institute. He died last Friday.
To understand my father you have to understand the way he thought. I cannot say I ever really did u...
DATE: Aug 19, 2000
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Valley Middle School, Middle Road, Warwick. Another nine million dollars worth of work is expected to be completed by 2002.
Work on a new administration wing and extensive renovations throughout the facility have been underway since March. The new wi...
DATE: Aug 18, 2000
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Human Rights Commissioners now have greater powers to investigate discrimination after Senators yesterday passed a Human Rights Amendment which now includes discrimination against women with children, pregnant women, a wider definition of disabilitie...
DATE: Aug 15, 2000
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Patrick Burgess
