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Students from Warwick Academy are celebrating an “outstanding” 100 percent pass rate for the International Baccalaureate Diploma.
Some gifted pupils scored more than 90 and 80 percent and the school’s average score beat the global average.
Principal ...
DATE: Jul 10, 2014
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Bishop Vinton Anderson of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Bermudian minister who rose to global prominence in 1991 as president of the World Council of Churches, has died at the age of 86.
Bishop Anderson died yesterday at his home in St Lo...
DATE: Jul 10, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda High School for Girls has announced “outstanding” exam results from the Class of 2014.
Ninety-one percent of the class entered the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma and 97 percent were successful with a 100 percent pass rate in individ...
DATE: Jul 08, 2014
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Governor George Fergusson has handed back honorary membership of the Mid Ocean Club after a vote in the House of Assembly to ask him to consider holding an inquiry into historic land transactions.
Mr Fergusson said he acted after Randy Horton, the Sp...
DATE: Jul 08, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government MPs were under no orders to vote along party lines during Friday’s session of Parliament which saw a One Bermuda Alliance MP controversially break with her colleagues and vote with the Opposition.
OBA whip Cole Simons confirmed yesterday t...
DATE: Jul 07, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Educational Network and six other organisations celebrated five years of the Math Springboard Programme last week.
The Math Springboard Programme offers work shadow experience for Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy students at Mon...
DATE: Jul 05, 2014
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Former Ombudsman Arlene Brock has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, according to US Consul General Bob Settje.
The scholarship will allow Ms Brock to spend a semester at Boston’s Northeastern School of Law, where she will parti...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
More discussion is needed to determine the level of parental and community involvement in Bermuda’s schools, according to Education Minister Grant Gibbons.
Dr Gibbons launched a consultation process earlier this year on proposed changes to the Educat...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Read Write Bermuda Campaign and the Bermuda National Library Summer Reading Programme were today launched by Minister of Community, Culture and Sports, Wayne Scott.
The initiative, which promotes reading and writing and celebrates Bermuda’s liter...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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He signed up for the 29-year-old programme during a meeting with US Consul General Robert Settje on Thursday.
Mr Gibbons said: “The purpose of the agreement is to introduce a programme to the Bermuda public school system that will increase awareness ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2014
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