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A Royal Navy officer who helped create the Royal Bermuda Regiment Coastguard and a Bermudian volunteer at a historic British cathedral have featured on the New Year’s Honours List.
Commander Marcus Jacques was appointed an Officer of the Most Excelle...
DATE: Jan 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Covid-19 has claimed its first victim of the new year, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister said the loss was “very upsetting” for the public.
The news came as Ms Wilson announced that more than 9,000 doses of vaccine will arri...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A major figure in the island’s public education system has died.
Earl “Gabby” Hart was 79.
Mr Hart was also prominent in sport as a founder of the Bermuda Track & Field Association in 1972 and as an influential member of the Young Men’s Social Club.
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DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Private school pupils will go back to their classrooms for the start of the new term, it was announced yesterday.
But public schoolchildren will be learning at home from today until at least January 12.
Pupils at Mount Saint Agnes Academy were back ...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Michael Dunkley, the Shadow Minister of Health, is urging the Government to ensure that fresh supplies of the coronavirus vaccine will be made available.
The Government is expected to receive 9,750 doses of the drug this week – enough to provide 4,87...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Nikita Robinson may be known for speaking her mind on the radio – but she said she was stunned into silence after she was included in the New Year’s Honours List.
Ms Robinson said: “When they told me, my heart skipped a beat.
“I’m a woman of words ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Education chiefs will meet next week to decide if schoolchildren will go back to their classrooms in the middle of the month.
The Education Emergency Measures Committee has already ruled that remote learning will be used from Tuesday until January 12...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Free Democratic Movement may have been out of the spotlight since its election defeat but it is gearing up to address the public early in the new year.
This is according to Eugene Dean, a founding member of the island’s third political force who ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
School closures could be avoided if they were allowed to apply for charter school status and get the right to government grants, an education campaigner has said.
Becky Ausenda, the executive director of the Bermuda Education Network, an organisatio...
DATE: Dec 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Minister of Education has defended the move to consider closing high-performing primary schools saying that all of Bermuda’s schools should be performing well.
Diallo Rabain was speaking to The Royal Gazette about government’s plans to overhaul t...
DATE: Dec 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan