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More than 100 parents and children of two schools this morning marched on Parliament in protest over a decision to move their principals.
PTA Presidents Azuhaa Coleman of Victor Scott, and Quinton Ming of TN Tatem Middle School, presented a letter to...
DATE: Apr 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sisters Lorraine Smith and Audra-Ann Bean yesterday became the first defendants in Bermuda to be convicted of senior abuse after a jury found them guilty of fleecing their grieving elderly grandmother.
The pair stole almost half a million dollars fro...
DATE: Apr 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Four students have received grants to help them push for careers in the financial services industry, under a new scheme set up in memory of a popular casualty underwriter.
Three Berkeley Institute students and one from CedarBridge Academy will all re...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Members of Bermuda Educators’ Council resigned en-bloc amid claims of union and political interference, according to documents leaked to The Royal Gazette.
Minutes from a meeting of the group, which oversees the licensing of teachers, show members co...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A woman accused of financially exploiting and stealing from her grandmother shopped for shoes and jewellery after paying $7,000 of the elderly woman’s money into her own account, a court heard yesterday.
Audra-Ann Bean, 44, of Lusher Lane East, Warwi...
DATE: Apr 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Economy Minister Patrice Minors assured the House of Assembly she had “no intentions to make any changes to the existing policy” when it came to term limits.
The statement came as Ms Minors rebutted Opposition claims that the policy had driven busine...
DATE: Apr 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
When Louise Jackson came to Bermuda in 1952 to begin a career as a physical education teacher, she had no idea she would end up facing many of her students in the House of Assembly.
At the age of 81, as she ends a nine-year stint in Parliament, Mrs J...
DATE: Apr 23, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Parents need to be given the proper tools to tackle the issue of drug use by the Island’s youth, according to the Family Centre.
Responding to the results of the National School Survey, released yesterday, Martha Dismont of the Family Centre said she...
DATE: Apr 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Royal Gazette asked members of our Readers’ Forum how they have been affected by the rising cost of living in Bermuda. If you want to join our forum, e-mail jdeacon@royalgazette.bm
Danny Matthews
I accepted the call for everyone to pull together...
DATE: Apr 20, 2012
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Other
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Students are carrying guns into schools, according to a Government survey of the Island’s youth.
The National School Survey found 1.4 percent of students had taken a handgun to school in the past year; 2.9 percent said they’d carried a gun in that sa...
DATE: Apr 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
