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Family Centre’s Homework Academy programme is aiming to attract volunteers to help students reach their academic goals.
The initiative, launched by the charity five years ago, offers extra assistance to Dellwood Middle School students and those in th...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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The way children aged 16 and 17 are dealt with in Bermuda’s criminal courts is at odds with the United Nations’ child treaty, according to a new Supreme Court ruling.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said certain parts of the Youth Offender’s Act (YOA) 195...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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Bermuda College students learnt about everything from the biology of the black grouper to using the Bernoulli’s principle to make ten-minute ice cream as part of the Corange Science Fair held this week.
The students were able to find out about the la...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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S2 students at Berkeley Institute have “soared” in their English Language IGCSEs according to the school’s principal.
Dr Phyllis Curtis-Tweed praised the 11 students, who sat the exams in November 2015, as well as their teacher Sandra Burrows.
The s...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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Tawana Tannock, the Human Rights Commission’s newly appointed president, sees “exciting and dynamic times” ahead for human rights in Bermuda.
“Human rights have been at the forefront of Bermuda’s imagination for the last three years — it’s a great ti...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board has been ordered to pay estimated legal costs of $500,000 after it lost an appeal in the Privy Council against a patient who won damages for negligence suffered at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The board's insurers wi...
DATE: Jan 26, 2016
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“I don’t make promises that I don’t know I can fulfil,” said Diallo Rabain of his campaign in Devonshire North Central for the Progressive Labour Party.
“I will do my best to investigate and get back to the people here, but I am not going to promise ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
Jobs and healthcare appear to be the top concerns of Devonshire North Central’s voters, as the electoral campaign nears the final stretch.
With residents set to choose between Diallo Rabain and Andrew Simons at a by-election on Thursday, February 4, ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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Jonathan Bell
The groundbreaking Mental Health Court is saving lives and giving participants fresh hope for the future.
This according to the men and women who have taken part in the treatment programme as well as the team of lawyers, probation officers, court ser...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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Move in silence and let your success be your noise.
This is the life philosophy of Kimika Jackson, head girl at Berkeley Institute and a dual-enrolment student at Bermuda College.
A skilled footballer and ardent debater, her passion for mathematics ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2016
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