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A new facility providing accommodation to scores of homeless people could soon be open.
Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy yesterday announced plans to renovate a disused Government building to provide “dignified emergency housing for the most vulner...
DATE: Jun 05, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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Eleven young Bermudians are looking forward to a career in the hospitality industry after completing a hotel training course through the Bermuda Hospitality Institute.
The students are to begin a work experience programme at a number of Isla...
DATE: Jun 03, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
A group of 20 middle school teachers have completed leadership training as part of a programme to raise professional standards within the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Grant Gibbons said that improving teaching and learning in the class...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government has no plans to legalise marijuana, claiming that “it is wrong to yield to a more permissive attitude socially without due regard to the social, economic and health consequences”.
But under planned reforms of cannabis laws, police could be...
DATE: May 31, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
A debate on reforming cannabis laws dominated proceedings in the House of Assembly.
Premier Michael Dunkley launched an eight-hour discussion by stating: “The debate is one that joins Bermuda with many other countries who have wrestled with the issue...
DATE: May 31, 2014
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Warwick Academy is preparing to introduce a new “Reception Year” for students as young as four years old.
Principal Maggie McCorkell said the initiative is hoped to be up and running by September 2015, and will offer youngsters a sound foundation for...
DATE: May 30, 2014
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Education
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Reform of Bermuda’s laws on cannabis will today be debated in the House of Assembly.
Government Whip Cole Simons said: “I think it will be a long debate because it’s a topical issue and, as we look at other jurisdictions, they are certainly examining...
DATE: May 30, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Much-loved educator Lorraine Fubler, who taught generations of Bermudian schoolchildren to read, has died at the age of 98.
Ms Fubler’s more than 40 years of teaching began at Central School, now Victor Scott Primary, where she trained before moving ...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Pupils at CedarBridge Academy will today stage a special tribute to US writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died yesterday aged 86.
The tribute to Dr Angelou, who died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had ta...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A 16 year old girl was charged this morning with assaulting two teachers at Berkeley Institute.
Taree Wade, of Fentons Drive, Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully assaulting and causing bodily harm to Eva Showers and Mary Burgess on May 1.
Acco...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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