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A woman has claimed her foster daughter’s school tried to transfer the child to a learning support class without consultation.
She said she refused to allow the move and the girl stayed in a mainstream class after her doctor recommended the seven-yea...
DATE: Nov 02, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A school has broken ground on construction of a new building to house its international baccalaureate programme.
Somersfield Academy said the building will let the school run the programme from middle school to high school.
Colm Holman, chairman of t...
DATE: Nov 02, 2018
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Education
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A nursery was shut down yesterday after a 12-month-old boy suffered a serious head injury.
Michael Weeks, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that it was still too early to confirm if the child’s injury had happened while he was at th...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
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Pupils from Prospect Preschool will have a temporary new school because of plumbing problems.
The children will be moved to the Devonshire Seventh-day Adventist Church, located on Roberts Avenue.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said t...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
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Education
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A 20-year-old would-be lawyer was given a 12-month conditional discharge after she assaulted and obstructed police officers.
Imani Byron, 20, pleaded guilty to assault on one officer and obstruction of another.
Magistrates’ Court heard that the incid...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
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Bermuda is to start Global Entrepreneurship Week early.
GEW will held worldwide between November 12 and 16, but Global Entrepreneurship Week Bermuda has teamed up with the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, Government’s ICT policy department a...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda missed the chance to head off an obesity and diabetes epidemic decades ago, a former government head of physical education has claimed.
John Moreby, who worked with the Department of Education for more than 20 years before he retired in 1995,...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A charity set up to care for ex-servicemen is to publicise the island’s role in the First World War with a special poster and booklet to mark the centenary of the Armistice.
The Bermuda Legion has produced a poster with details of every Bermudian who...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
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The transformation of Bermuda into an “innovation island” could boost the economy, a report commissioned by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has predicted.
Kendaree Burgess, executive director of the chamber, said “we are in the right space to take ou...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Plumbing problems have forced the closure of a preschool tomorrow.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said that Devonshire’s Prospect Preschool was forced to close today because of a water shortage.
She said: “Following an assessment thi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
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