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The Island’s public senior school students show a 95 percent graduation rate for the latest school year, according to Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
The minimum grade point average set by the Board of Education is a 2.0 — the equivalent of a...
DATE: Nov 30, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A document labelled the “secret plan” of the United Bermuda Party by the governing party has been denounced as a fabrication by the One Bermuda Alliance and its alleged author.
The OBA denounced the document which was placed on a new website, www.ubp...
DATE: Nov 30, 2012
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Politics
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Twelve Berkeley Institute students have qualified for college level courses, and will be eligible for dual enrolment at the Bermuda College in the spring, 2013 semester.
The college offered placement exams on November 17.
Berkeley principal Michelle ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance yesterday announced Susan Jackson as their general election candidate for Pembroke South West.
Ms Jackson, the daughter of former area MP Louise Jackson and former Senate President the late Albert Jackson, told the...
DATE: Nov 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Progressive Labour Party election candidate Makai Dickerson quit yesterday as the political storm around him intensified.
Mr Dickerson, from Sandys, stood down days after news emerged that he had been arrested and found in possession of cannabis.
Yes...
DATE: Nov 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Four teens were yesterday charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a fellow student.
Tijuan Swan, 16, Keanu Wilson, 17, Tishon Gordon, 17 and Kenneth Wade, 17, denied taking part in the beating of Raymond Crofton Jr on November 6.
Magistrates...
DATE: Nov 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda is vying to be one of several destinations for an airship race right out of the pages of Jules Verne.
Ministers met yesterday with the Commissioner of the World Air League Don Hartsell about hosting the inaugural World Sky Race, featuring bli...
DATE: Nov 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Accountant Cornell Fubler is making a last-minute bid for elective office and is asking the voters of St George’s North to send him to parliament on December 17.
His candidacy means that there are now nine general election candidates running as indep...
DATE: Nov 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Mark Pettingill
Mark Pettingill joined the United Bermuda Party once they had lost the 1998 election. “I had my career, and it was starting to take flight. The PLP came into power and the UBP leader, Pam Gordon, asked me to be in the Senate. I was 3...
DATE: Nov 28, 2012
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Politics
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Yesha Townsend, Kioshi Burgess and Juanee Verdelle Scott were awarded grants totalling $18,000 to aid their educational pursuits yesterday.
The grants, courtesy of the Bermuda Arts Council, were presented by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industr...
DATE: Nov 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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