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The Sunshine League is to stop offering residential foster care for children next month.
The “excessively high costs” of the programme were cited as the reason for the change in a press release issued by the charity this afternoon.
Five full-time sta...
DATE: Jun 21, 2011
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While most 11-year-old boys are playing football or video games, a special group of Dellwood Middle School students are mastering the art of mathematics.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity started an impressive programme last October teaching M1 students ho...
DATE: Jun 20, 2011
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Education
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Government is exploring the idea of bringing a US training and vocational programme for young people to Bermuda.
Premier Paula Cox met a contractor from the Job Corps initiative in Bermuda four weeks ago.
She had a follow-up meeting this week with th...
DATE: Jun 17, 2011
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The Catlin End-to-End celebrated breaking the $4 million mark in its 24 years of fundraising, as it handed out more than $250,000 to Bermuda charities today.
Bermuda’s tough economic times were a recurring theme in the remarks of thanks from the 11 l...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has stepped down as chairwoman of Government’s African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) programme.
Former teacher Maxine Esdaille now heads the cultural tourism initiative, which promotes African history in Bermud...
DATE: Jun 15, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
A teacher known for being ‘small in stature but a giant in the classroom’ will be recognised this weekend with an Excellence in Teaching Award.
Wendie Warren, an elementary teacher at The Bermuda Institute has been lauded for ushering in a “high sta...
DATE: Jun 15, 2011
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Education
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Two teenage musicians learned to “push themselves to the limit” when they took their talents to the international stage without much time to practice.
Dylan Hollis, 15, and Willis Steede, 17, only had about 10 days to look over their music before the...
DATE: Jun 15, 2011
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Education
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Schoolchildren have learned the importance that people “who ride around on rental bikes” have on Bermuda’s economy.
Eight to ten-year-olds at Harrington Sound Primary have gone from knowing nothing to everything about tourism in just a couple of mon...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Tourism
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The successes of Bermuda’s schools in establishing lifelong healthy habits in our future generations have been celebrated.
Health Minister Zane DeSilva said a lot of people went a long way to ensure schools across the Island were healthy.
He hosted t...
DATE: Jun 14, 2011
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Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal (CPM) for Meritorious Service in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Mr DeSilva, a Bermudian, joined the Bermuda Police Service as a Police Cadet in 1985 and worked his wa...
DATE: Jun 13, 2011
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