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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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Other
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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
The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic.
The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian student is to start her final year at an overseas boarding school as head girl.
Adriana Malpas, 17, said that she would oversee events put on by prefects as part of her new role at the Trinity College School in Ontario, Canada.
She added ...
DATE: Aug 10, 2020
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The Progressive Labour Party claimed yesterday that the One Bermuda Alliance candidate selected to fight a House of Assembly seat showed “hypocrisy and cynicism”.
The ruling party hit out after it was revealed that Vic Ball, a former OBA senator, wil...
DATE: Aug 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Leader of the Opposition said yesterday that he expected more politicians to resign as he revealed his party’s candidate for a by-election.
Craig Cannonier said he was “delighted” to announce that Vic Ball, a former One Bermuda Alliance senator, ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A meeting for bus operators regarding the transportation of students to and from school under Ministry of Health Covid-19 guidelines was postponed due to challenges in securing a venue.
The Department of Public Transport said that the meeting, which ...
DATE: Aug 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A “young and dumb” teenager involved in a police chase on a stolen bike was shown leniency in court yesterday after he promised to turn his life around.
Shae Hassell, 19, was spared a $1,970 fine, and given a two-year conditional discharge and 95 hou...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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Court
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Former parliamentarian William Milner Cox, a member of the vaunted “Class of ’68”, has died. He was 91.
Mr Cox was among a group of MPs who won seats in the 1968 election and were to make their mark on the Bermudian political landscape in the followi...
DATE: Aug 06, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall