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A teenager has admitted striking a Berkeley teacher with a plastic garbage can during a heated altercation with another student.
Tristan Hollis, 16, pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting Gregory Sargeant on May 10.
Magistrates’ Court heard that a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2013
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A summer camp for science-minded children has been extended to include 15-year-olds.
Ascendant Group Limited is hosting the STEM summer camp for students with a “proven interest in, and aptitude for, science, technology, engineering and mathematics”....
DATE: Jun 27, 2013
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A “mentor and friend” to the primary students of Warwick Academy has stepped down.
Retired police inspector Jean Victors supervised the after-school programme at Warwick Academy and worked as a crossing guard over 22 years.
Following a special assemb...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Prospect Primary Preschool is set to reopen today after water/plumbing problems that forced the school’s closure yesterday.
The school was closed at noon yesterday, but a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education said the issues have since been resol...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
It was a bittersweet graduation ceremony by the Adult Education School (AES) to pay homage to a student who died before he found that that he passed his General Education Development diploma (GED).
School head Donna Daniels requested a moment of sile...
DATE: Jun 26, 2013
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Portuguese language courses are set to start at Bermuda College this fall, according to Vasco Da Gama president Andrea Moniz-DeSouza.
The college will initially offer beginner-level courses in the language, but Mrs Moniz-DeSouza said if the courses a...
DATE: Jun 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Mark Nash has been named president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda.
He was selected by the group’s central council to fill a vacancy left by outgoing president Cordell Riley.
Mr Nash will sit in the post until the organisation’s next annual g...
DATE: Jun 25, 2013
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Bermuda College students’ consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs has been surveyed for the first time.
The National Drug Control Department’s poll of 243 students over the spring semester showed alcohol as the drug of choice — but revealed t...
DATE: Jun 24, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government has imposed a cap on scholarship funds which have provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial assistance to gifted students.
New legislation tabled in the House of Assembly today will put a ceiling of $35,000 on each of eight gr...
DATE: Jun 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A long-serving St David’s teacher and counsellor popularly known as “Auntie Helene” has died aged 89.
Helene Paynter, who taught for more than 30 years at St David’s Primary School, was also the daughter of the school’s founder, Hilton Richardson.
“S...
DATE: Jun 21, 2013
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
