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A total of ten finalists are in the running for a teacher of the year award.
The teachers up for the Outstanding Teacher Award, organised by the Bermuda Education Network, were nominated by colleagues and the educational charity asked parents, pupils...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Ministry of Health had found cases of exposure to the coronavirus at a string of the island’s schools.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said exposures had been found at the Bermuda Institute, Saltus Grammar School, Warwick Academy, Mount Sa...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man who shoved a police officer during a fracas over the Cup Match holiday has been given a chance to turn his life around.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe gave Sadune Raynor, 27, a 12-month conditional discharge so that he can further his education ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A humanitarian who opened her home to offer meals and friendship to people in need was to be as a mother to the community.
The family of Kathleen Ford, who died in June, said she was known as “Ma”.
Ms Ford, from a humble childhood in Southampton, the...
DATE: Sep 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A student said she was “over the moon” after she was offered more than half a million dollars in scholarships.
Tierrai Tull, 20, could only accept three of the seven grants she was given because of awards policy.
But she said the remainder was still...
DATE: Sep 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Young people are to be brought together in an effort to combat climate change.
The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute has organised its first Youth Climate Summit, scheduled to take place online between November 22 and 27.
The BUEI said it was ...
DATE: Sep 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An “angel that came to share and teach” was a driven artist, humanitarian and inventor, friends have said.
Dennis Joaquin’s creations ranged from puppets to portrait paintings and murals, often featuring nature and undersea scenes, that decorated wal...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A new pressure group yesterday questioned Covid public safety policies that affect schoolchildren – including an insistence on masks in classrooms.
Us For Them Bermuda was set up last week to give children “a voice” and ensure that “their interests a...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Senators are expected to sit for a short session tomorrow when the Upper House resumes after the summer break.
There are just two bills on the order paper – the Human Rights Amendment Act 2021, and the Marine & Ports Services Amendment Act.
The human...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan