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Laptops will be bought for 1,600 primary-school pupils after a donation from a German foundation.
The Hasso Plattner Foundation made the contribution after it emerged some children did not have access to devices for remote learning during the Covid-1...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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Education
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A New York technology firm is poised to move its top management to the island on the basis of “aggressive selling” online of Bermuda’s success in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, David Burt revealed last night.
The Premier said Bermuda had wo...
DATE: Aug 14, 2020
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Earlier this week the Ministry of Labour advised the public that due to a ban on business travel for Canadian public servants, the Canadian Consulate is unable to facilitate the Biometric Identification Process for Canadian Visa Applicants in Bermuda...
DATE: Aug 13, 2020
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Education
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Press Release
Bus service will be halted today between 10am and 1.30pm.
The Department of Public Transportation said the interruption would allow talks with drivers in expectation of schools reopening next month.
A spokesman said: “The temporary service interrupti...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
“The next generation of leaders, managers and entrepreneurs” were presented with scholarship awards by the Department of Workforce Development yesterday.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, presented the awards to ten recipients at a ceremony at C...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Cecil G. Smith, a lifelong musician whose name became synonymous with the organ at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, has died at 85.
On Sunday he was given a send-off by the congregation of the Hamilton church, where he had also led the cho...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bank of Bermuda Foundation (Foundation) continues to recognise the important work of our third sector and endorses the vital establishment of the Bermuda Nonprofit Stabilisation Fund (Fund), which is designed to ensure that the valued work of the non...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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Press Release
A schoolboy is to get a second chance of an exhibition to showcase his artistic talent after an earlier event was shelved because of Covid-19.
Freda Trimm, a teacher at Paget Primary School, had hoped to hold an exhibition in April, Autism Awareness...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A pharmacy student who hopes to join the island’s battle against chronic illness has been given a $10,000 boost.
Ashley Davies is the winner this year of the Phoenix Stores’ Dr Kathy-Ann Louise White Pharmacy Scholarship, named after the first Bermud...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Worried teachers said yesterday they feared problems with the school bus service when the new term started because of Covid-19 safety rules.
It is expected that students will be required to stick to social-distancing rules on reduced capacity buses w...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan