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Impact Mentoring Academy has welcomed a new partnership with Hamilton-based facilities management firm Air Care.
As well as donating $1,000 to the non-profit middle school and high school, which aims to “empower young males”, Air Care will also offe...
DATE: Jun 29, 2016
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Eleven Bermudian university students are currently taking part in a 12-week “cultivating internship programme” with KPMG. The programme is aimed at securing the students’ “professional success and career development”, according to a company statement...
DATE: Jun 29, 2016
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Low turnout at last week’s referendum shows that Bermudians have deeper worries than same-sex unions, according to the LGBTQ group OUTBermuda.
While voters turned down both same-sex marriage and civil unions, too few showed at the polls for the refer...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The latest school year has come to a close with nearly 50,000 breakfasts given to public school students by the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
It marks the agency’s ninth year running its breakfast programme — and, appropriately enough, a ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Educational programmes designed to steer schoolchildren away from the perils of gangs could be expanded further in Bermuda, according to Jeff Baron, the Minister of National Security.
The GREAT initiative has already helped more than 600 children fro...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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Politics
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All four of Warwick Academy’s BTEC sixth-form students have graduated with distinction grades, the high school has announced.
The qualification — provided by the Business and Technology Education Council — is a vocational pathway which Warwick Acade...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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Government is stepping up its efforts to stop the Zika virus entering the island.
While Bermuda is considered Zika-free — at least no cases have reported — the Department of Health’s Vector Control team is piloting a new In2Care Mosquito Trap scheme....
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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The Government’s disputed airport redevelopment contract is to be investigated by a Commission of Inquiry along with contentious projects of the past — such as Bermuda Emissions Control and GlobalHue.
That independent body, which held its first publi...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Social development programmes should be mandatory at sports clubs to help to curb violence and other antisocial behaviour, the former president of Boulevard Community Club has claimed.
Lou Matthews said that young men needed to be educated and encour...
DATE: Jun 27, 2016
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Crime
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In a first, a group of Bermuda High School students got to spend the few days before summer break tackling science projects at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
The trip was part of the school’s second annual Steam week, for Science,...
DATE: Jun 27, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell