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A combination of home clear-outs and redecorations may have been a boost to a new shop set up to raise funds for charity.
Barbara Belton-Brown, a board member at Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, which opened its ReStore last month, said that the vent...
DATE: Jul 29, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Tawana Tannock told scholarship recipients that international business rescued her university education, helping her to have the successful career that has followed.
Speaking at the Association of Bermuda International Companies Education Awards cere...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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A sign to mark Mary Prince Emancipation Park was unveiled in honour of the enslaved Bermudian who gained her freedom and became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain.
Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, said that publ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda College has no long-term debt, the Minister of Education told MPs.
The news came as Diallo Rabain presented the 2018 and 2019 financial statements for the college on Friday.
Bermuda College had assets in excess of $23.86m and total liabiliti...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Legislation to allow cannabis convictions to be removed from the record was approved in the House of Assembly on Friday.
But Ministers warned that the amendments would probably not remove Bermudians from the United States “stop list”, which makes it ...
DATE: Jul 27, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Borrowers are to get greater protections, with rules governing lenders set to be toughened.
Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, described examples of how struggling borrowers had fallen foul of questionable lending practices amid a lack of regul...
DATE: Jul 25, 2020
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Politics
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Legal changes are needed to standardise the appointment of future education commissioners, the shadow education minister said yesterday.
Cole Simons added that the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of veteran teacher and education official Gina Tuck...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Fifteen pieces of legislation will be up for debate in the House of Assembly today as Members of Parliament meet for the last time before the summer break.
A Bill to raise the debt ceiling is among the items to be debated. If passed, the amendment to...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
A veteran teacher and education official said yesterday she was disappointed but not embittered, after a court rejected her bid to overturn the appointment of the Commissioner of Education.
Gina Tucker had argued that she was not given a fair opportu...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A prototype for the phasing out of middle schools was unveiled in parliament today.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, outlined “sweeping positive changes” for a two-tier education system along with the introduction of signature schools.
Mr ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan