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College was recently accepted to a prestigious doctoral programme at a top US university.
Eugenie Simmons will soon join the Adult Education Intensive Guided Study (AEGIS) Doctoral Programme at Columbia University in New York.
Only 15 people are admi...
DATE: Oct 28, 1999
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The Progressive Labour Party faces a make-or-break Throne Speech with voters demanding the party deliver on pre-election promises, a party activist warns.
The call came yesterday after Premier Jennifer Smith signalled more teeth to this year's Throne...
DATE: Oct 27, 1999
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opening of the Progressive Labour Party's conference on Monday night.
In doing so, she went some way to explain the slow progress of the Government, now nearing the end of its first year -- and the challenges facing the party within its own ranks.
Ms...
DATE: Oct 27, 1999
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In a Call to the Bar session before acting Chief Justice Norma Wade-Miller, Barbadian Graveney Bannister was admitted to the Bermuda Bar yesterday morning.
Recently having graduated from the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, Mr.
Bannister was...
DATE: Oct 27, 1999
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The United Bermuda Party is calling for a different voting system to be put back on the political agenda.
Acting Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons said it was important to keep an open mind on proportional representation (PR).
Under that system the num...
DATE: Oct 26, 1999
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Progressive Labour Party members have attempted to peddle influence on the coat-tails of the 1998 General Election victory, Premier Jennifer Smith said last night.
And she admitted that the new Government had bitten off more than it could chew in pla...
DATE: Oct 26, 1999
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tackle the illiteracy problem.
A recent article in The Financial Times reported on two voluntary reading programmes aimed at turning around that city's low literacy rates -- and cutting crime at the same time.
Washington DC may be a very different pl...
DATE: Oct 26, 1999
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Certainly one can only hope that he is successful. However, one cannot but wonder what are we going to do about all of the functional illiterates that have already graduated.
We have created an increasingly sophisticated economy for the benefit of "g...
DATE: Oct 25, 1999
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Opposition Labour Affairs spokesman Michael Dunkley has blasted Education Minister Milton Scott for inflaming the teachers dispute by misunderstanding labour law. The teachers escalated their action in response to a threat of binding arbitration unde...
DATE: Oct 22, 1999
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of relief that common sense prevailed and classes resumed in public schools today.
The industrial dispute, which yesterday escalated to some 600 teachers refusing to turn up for class at all Government schools except two, will go to voluntary arbitra...
DATE: Oct 21, 1999
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