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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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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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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
Former United Bermuda Party MP Jon Brunson will face off against Health Minister Zane DeSilva in the upcoming General Election.
One Bermuda Alliance leader Craig Cannonier formally announced Mr Brunson’s candidacy for district 29, Southampton East.at...
DATE: Nov 02, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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A new Bermuda Educators’ Council has been elected following a hiatus of several months.
A chairman has yet to be appointed by the 11-member group, created in 2002 to oversee standards at the Island’s public and private schools
The previous council’s ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Latest figures from Government which show that the economy contracted by 2.8 percent in 2011, reveal “the hypocrisy of government spin,” and demonstrate that Government has failed the people, the One Bermuda Alliance says.
In a statement issued yeste...
DATE: Oct 29, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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