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Harmony Club has been chosen as the site for Government’s Job Corps initiative, and capital development costs are estimated at $6 million, Economy Minister Patrice Minors reported yesterday.
Operating costs of the planned residential programme are an...
DATE: Nov 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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Government will not release full GCSE results for the Island’s public schools until it has completed a series of public town hall meetings, according to a spokeswoman.
Those who attended the meetings have been shown a pair of graphs that show the vas...
DATE: Nov 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Alternative schools are in for greater Government supervision, but the Opposition is asking why steps weren't taken years earlier.
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons said there were 25 tutorial sites three years ago, none of which held an operat...
DATE: Nov 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government’s pledge to keep closer watch on alternative education is welcome news for Bermuda Union of Teachers leader Mike Charles.
“There are quite a few students being home-schooled — you’d be surprised,” he told The Royal Gazette.
But the veteran...
DATE: Nov 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government Health Insurance will expand to cover bills for generic drugs and GP visits, according to the Throne Speech.
Prescription drug benefits under the FutureCare insurance plan are also to be amended, to pay the full cost of generic medications...
DATE: Nov 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It was all smiles in a crowded Cabinet Office room as Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith thanked organisations that have signed on for a work experience programme.
The Career Pathways programme has taken flight, with 223 public senior school stud...
DATE: Nov 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
This is the full text of the Speech from the Throne read by Governor George Fergusson in the Cabinet grounds yesterday.
Madam President and Members of the Senate, Mr Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly, Bermuda, like many other countries, ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2012
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Other
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A free symposium offering parents the chance to learn essential skills to help bring up their children takes place at the Dellwood Middle School today.
The Ministry of Youth, Families and Sports, Department of Child and Family Services, and the Bermu...
DATE: Nov 03, 2012
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Other
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Government announced a fairly substantial legislative agenda for the new parliamentary session yesterday, despite the imminence of a general election.
But Craig Cannonier, Leader of the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance, condemned the Speech from the T...
DATE: Nov 03, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Seniors struggling to pay their medical fees, anti-conscription campaigners and pro-human rights groups were among the winners of Government’s Throne Speech delivered today.
The speech — the Progressive Labour Party’s final Throne Speech before the n...
DATE: Nov 02, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
