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The Salvation Army “hasn’t lost momentum” on replacing its decaying emergency housing shelter, new divisional commander Frank Pittman has vowed.
Major Pittman, who assumed his post a month ago, said he’d been taken aback by the decrepit state of the ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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More than 1,800 people have taken training classes that focus on protecting children from sexual abuse.
The free course is run by SCARS (Saving Children and Revealing Secrets), a charity that aims to reduce the risk of youngsters being molested and t...
DATE: Sep 02, 2014
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A trio of Regiment soldiers are to take part in a massive British Army exercise in Africa.
Lieutenant Paolo Odoli, Colour Sergeant Jason Smith and Sergeant Dejion Stange will leave this weekend to travel to England to meet up with the Welsh Guards Ba...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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A young Bermudian student desperate to obtain her degree is pleading for help covering another year in college, after being forced to defer her education twice.
Kahnae Bean, 21, has been assisted by the New Beginnings Educational Trust — but the char...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Education Minister Grant Gibbons praised the dedication and inspiring influence of educators as he met a group of new teachers.
He spoke out as he opened the Department of Education’s New Teacher Orientation in St David’s.
The two-day programme for 3...
DATE: Aug 29, 2014
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Students at Warwick Academy have achieved high grades in their IGCSE qualifications.
The school has reported a 99.7 percent pass rate in the exams, with principal Maggie McCorkell noting that there were some “exceptional individual successes”, includ...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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A quadriplegic who has spent a nightmare 40 years “incarcerated” on a hospital ward for elderly dementia patients could be moving to a new home.
Health chiefs have finally agreed to allow Luke Caines to move out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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Belco has donated $165,000 toward education for local students who showed themselves to be “gifted, dedicated and ready to make a real contribution to the Bermuda community”.
Belco president and CEO Walter Higgins commended the 2014-2015 recipients o...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014
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A total of $7500 has been awarded to two students by Hamilton Parish Council.
Sarai Hines won a Members’ Scholarship worth $5000, while Jashun Bean was awarded a bursary of $2500.
Ms Hines is studying fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Art...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A Bermuda private school has notched up its best results ever in English school exams.
Pupils at the Bermuda High School for Girls recorded a 100 per cent pass rate in the 2013/14 round of the exams — formerly known as O Levels.
A total of 21 per cen...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
