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The Chubb Charitable Foundation – Bermuda announced today the creation of a new summer volunteer initiative called the “Community Service Values Summer Program” designed to support Bermudian college students and several local non-profit organizations...
DATE: Jun 29, 2020
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Press Release
Two new e-books offer students an educational journey through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, as well as the history of tourism in Bermuda.
The National Museum of Bermuda announced it had collaborated with the Department of Education to create student...
DATE: Jun 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers voted yesterday to take a 10 per cent salary cut for a year as part of the fightback from the economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers and associated staff unanimously backed the move at a special gen...
DATE: Jun 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The deadline to register for a summer hothouse academy for schoolchildren is Friday, the education department said today.
The science, technology, engineering, arts and maths — STEAM — Academy, open to Primary 4 to M4 pupils, will include hands-on le...
DATE: Jun 24, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A US residential treatment centre will not be disciplined by state regulators after the death by suicide of a Bermudian teenager, it was reported.
West Ridge Academy, in West Jordan, Utah, was investigated by the state’s Department of Human Services’...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
“Chronic social isolation” contributed to a surge in violence over the National Heroes Day weekend, according to Wayne Caines, the national security minister.
But Mr Caines told the House of Assembly: “Bringing harm to others and instilling fear in t...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda must tackle systemic racism in order to confront a plague of violence, a counsellor affiliated with Social Justice Bermuda said.
Juanae Crockwell was part of a group of hundreds that marched through Hamilton on June 13 in support of the globa...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Endeavour Community Sailing has released its 2018/19 Impact Report highlighting the enormous difference its programmes are making in the lives of Bermuda’s young people. Endeavour Community Sailing is a nonprofit and registered charity committed to c...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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Press Release
A high school was ransacked during a break-in last week.
CedarBridge Academy in Devonshire had the shelves in their greenhouse disassembled and stolen for lumber on Friday.
A post made on the school’s Facebook page said that the shelves were a joint ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Bermudians are being asked to get up and run to raise money for Bermudian students in an initiative from a former scholarship recipient, Allison Parry.
Ms Parry is calling for islanders to secure pledges for donations from friends and family to run...
DATE: Jun 22, 2020
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Press Release