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The Island's two senior schools have seen their budgets cut by more than 20 percent while learning support, counselling and summer school programmes have been cut by more than 30 percent.
Yesterday Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith announced ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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Education
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Programmes to help at-risk young people and small businesses were two victims of Premier Paula Cox’s cost-cutting Budget yesterday.
The Mirrors programme repeatedly heralded for turning around the lives of young men and women since its launch four ye...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox yesterday cut payroll tax, hoping to stimulate the economy and lead Bermuda into recovery from recession.
Reversing the unpopular two percentage point rise she imposed last year so payroll tax returns to 14 percent Ms Cox says she’s...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Ministry of Education is refusing to say whether it has appointed a principal for Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy more than three years after the last one left.
Dr Dena Lister is listed on the Ministry’s website as principal but there has never b...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Falling house prices and rent, a shrinking population, rising health care costs, patchy public schools’ performance and huge numbers of people working for Government.
Sounds like the average critic’s snapshot of Bermuda today, but that’s economist Pe...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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A service will be held this coming Saturday to commemorate one of the famous sons at rest in the graveyard of 400-year-old St Peter’s church in St George.
Midshipman Richard Dale, 20, was the last American victim of the war of 1812. He died in St Geo...
DATE: Feb 16, 2011
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Other
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Twenty-one-year-old Sanjay DeSilva graduated from the Berkeley Institute with GCSEs in maths and business.
He was also the runner up for the Bermuda International Business Award at the school.
However the father-of-one has been rejected for a range...
DATE: Feb 16, 2011
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Other
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MPs clashed in a fiery exchange after Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson claimed Bermuda’s reputation was being trashed by “experimental” prostate cancer treatment at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
Progressive Labour Party members reacted angr...
DATE: Feb 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Minister Glenn Blakeney warned drugs in sport will not be tolerated as MPs passed legislation establishing internationally accepted anti-doping rules.
Mr Blakeney noted drugs are a scourge in Bermuda’s community, making the legislation “most importan...
DATE: Feb 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A shelter for teenaged mothers is launching a campaign to raise $100,000 to help keep its programmes going.
According to Teen Services Director Michelle Wade, it costs $380,000 annually to run Teen Haven, a home for mothers aged 16 to 24.
She said t...
DATE: Feb 14, 2011
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Other
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