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Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government.
Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A specialist school has been transformed into a “mathematical planetarium” to encourage pupils to reach for the stars.
The walls at Planet Math’s buildings in Hamilton and St George are now covered in artwork, including images of galaxies and planets...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Warwick Academy is celebrating its most successful university and college acceptance rate in recent history with 98 per cent of graduates achieving their first option, the school said.
A total of 54 of the 55 graduates secured their top choice afte...
DATE: Oct 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A new $3.5 million career development centre at Bermuda College is to be funded by four reinsurance firms, it was revealed yesterday.
Athene Holding, Athora Life Reinsurance, Aspen Insurance Holdings and Catalina Holdings teamed up to make the multim...
DATE: Oct 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
International Baccalaureate pupils at a private school surpassed the world average pass rate by almost 30 per cent.
Bermuda High School pupils had an average pass rate of 96 per cent in the 2020 IB diploma programme — well above the worldwide 79 per ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A founder of the Free Democratic Movement said that stronger anti-violence policies were needed to improve the party’s chances of victory in a General Election.
Desmond Crockwell, an anti-violence campaigner and community worker, said he would like t...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A paddle boarder is to take on his next feat in a 50-mile trip from an offshore buoy to a bay.
Matt Carr plans to make his way from a marker south-southeast of Bermuda back to shore on a stand up board.
He said: “I have made it around the island non-...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A $20,000 donation was made to a non-profit organisation that provides helps for people with special needs.
WindReach received the funding boost from Third Point Reinsurance to support its life skills and therapeutic riding programmes, which benefit ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
About 100 Port Royal Primary School students took to the street yesterday morning to remind people to be kind to each other.
The children waved posters they had made encouraging kindness as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, which this year carrie...
DATE: Oct 10, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A notice was issued yesterday to inform the public about a sex offender to be released from prison today.
Brittonie Lloyd Taylor, 39, will live in Pembroke after he is freed from the Prison Farm in St George’s. He was convicted and jailed for serious...
DATE: Oct 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff