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Government is to provide free training for people looking to work in the energy industry.
Walter Roban, the minister for home affairs, announced the launch of a new course at a press conference last week.
Mr Roban said that a five-day course was comp...
DATE: Aug 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Cambridge curriculum should be scrapped under government’s education reform plans, the former principal of St George’s Preparatory School has said.
Mary Lodge said that the relatively low Cambridge Primary Checkpoint results in English, Maths and...
DATE: Aug 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A long-serving principal at Mount Saint Agnes Academy and one of the island’s last Sisters of Charity has died at 81 after devoting 36 years to the school.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Judith Marie Rollo came to Bermuda in 1968 as a nun on ...
DATE: Aug 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Obituaries
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A ban on new work permit applications in a slew of job categories has been extended for a further three months until the end of October.
But seven professions have been moved from ‘closed’ to ‘restricted’, meaning that employers can submit work permi...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Labour
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
In her graduate year at Warwick Academy, Flora Duffy said as her yearbook quote: “Dream as if you’ll live for ever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
On Monday night, Warwick Academy revelled in the joy of her Olympic victory after Ms Duffy did just t...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Progressive Labour Party has remained silent about whether one of its MPs will be disciplined for his vocal opposition to the closure of West End Primary School - as is the case with one of the party’s veteran members.
Jamahl Simmons, MP for San...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Plans to close West End Primary School in Sandys came under heavy fire last night at a heated town hall meeting in Somerset Cricket Club.
The gathering also delivered an uncommon rebuke to the Progressive Labour Party government, from the party’s own...
DATE: Jul 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A maths whiz reached a new personal best and climbed global records after memorising 20,000 digits of Pi.
Troy Ashby, a maths lecturer at Bermuda College, memorised and wrote the digits non-stop for 24 hours, breaking his previous record of 12,000 di...
DATE: Jul 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Parents need more information quickly from government so they can make informed and timely decisions following the formal announcement that eight primary schools will be closed, a Parent Teacher Association president said yesterday.
Juanae Crockwell,...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Historical Legacy Committee is to be formed to share the history of schools that provided Black children with educational opportunities during racial segregation.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, made the announcement in the House of Asse...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan