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The Bermuda Festival has launched a competition to select the top youth music ensemble and runners-up to perform in its 2018 programme
Organisers say the move follows a successful step to include student musicians alongside international performers i...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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Bermuda will have to import non-Bermudians to cope with a health and demographic timebomb, the island’s Minister of Health said this morning.
Kim Wilson explained Bermuda must be prepared to tackle health issues associated with an ageing population, ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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A soccer ball, a marble run, a fidget spinner, an owl costume and a horse stable were among the creations at the 2017 Cardboard Challenge.
Young engineers from the Bermuda Homeschool Network took part in the event, inspired by the Imagination Foundat...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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Education
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Education minister Diallo Rabain highlighted Bermudian success stories as he tabled the annual report for the National Training Board.
Mr Rabain told the House of Assembly four individuals, who received support and funding from the NTB, were examples...
DATE: Oct 06, 2017
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Politics
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News Staff
The departure of Freddie Evans from the post of education commissioner took a new twist yesterday.
A series of performance appraisals on Dr Evans show a sharp drop in his evaluations in the month before his exit was announced.
Mark Diel, of law firm ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man banned from teaching in Britain because of serious misconduct with a 16-year-old schoolgirl applied for a job at Saltus Grammar School this year.
Matthew McGowan approached Saltus after complaints were raised about his relationship with a pupil...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Pastor Leroy Bean was announced yesterday as Bermuda’s gang violence reduction co-ordinator.
However, Jeff Baron, the former Minister of National Security, questioned the appointment and asked what had happened to Mr Bean’s predecessor in the role. ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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Students and unemployed people will be helped into jobs through a workforce development plan, said senator Jason Hayward.
The junior education minister told the Upper House that a $300,000 government grant to Bermuda College had attracted a flurry of...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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Politics
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The Government will conduct an assessment of the tourism industry to help unemployed Bermudians into jobs held by non-Bermudians, according to Jamahl Simmons.
Speaking at a press conference this morning, the Minister of Economic Development and Touri...
DATE: Oct 05, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Freddie Evans is taking legal action against the Ministry of Education after being “relieved of his responsibilities” as education commissioner.
There is also confusion about whether Dr Evans had been properly dismissed from his job.
Mark Diel, of ...
DATE: Oct 04, 2017
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Education
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