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Two of Bermuda’s broadcast stars will be incarcerated at a jail cell in Fort Hamilton today as a forerunner to this year’s Celebrity Lock-Up fundraiser.
Patrina O’Connor, better known as Power Girl from Power 95, and Mr Magic from Irie FM98.3 will fi...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
“Stringent requirements” govern the use of unlicensed teachers in Bermuda’s classrooms, according to educators who oversee the procedure.
Helle Patterson of Bermuda Educators Council spoke out after the Ministry of Education reported 22 exemptions ha...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Progressive Labour Party backbencher Terry Lister told MPs he didn’t support the parliamentary committee system because the Opposition used it to take “cheap shots” at Government.
Mr Lister told the House of Assembly that when the joint select commit...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Education reform was already “dead on arrival” by the time a bipartisan parliamentary committee began reviewing progress, Opposition MP Grant Gibbons claimed yesterday.
The Shadow Education Minister told the House of Assembly that the joint select co...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell claimed last night that his counterpart in Government put a “gloss” and a “spin” this week on the 2011 visitor arrival figures.
Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert reported on Monday that Bermuda recorded the second...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief yesterday defended Government’s handling of a controversial land policy in Parliament yesterday.
Mr Perinchief faced robust questioning from Opposition figures shortly after announcing the key changes.
But ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012
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Politics
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Patient satisfaction with acute care services at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital rose last year, according to figures released yesterday.
A survey carried out on behalf of Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) found that levels of satisfaction increased in...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Education Ministry has granted 22 exemptions to unlicensed teachers, allowing them to fill vacancies in the public school system.
Seventeen exemptions were announced in the House of Assembly last week by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
Sh...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government has acknowledged that the civil servants’ pension scheme is unsustainable and plans a review.
And it expected that the review would take place during a one-year freeze of the scheme.
This is revealed in the answers to 25 questions put to P...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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Convicted gunman Noet Barnett was left devastated as a young boy when his father, Stanley Barnett, was killed in a street fight. He was later failed by the education system, according to child welfare campaigner Sheelagh Cooper. This is the heartfelt...
DATE: Feb 16, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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