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A grassroots movement based in Bermuda’s gang heartland has won an award for its efforts to help rebuild a community torn apart by violence.
One Community Unified a collaboration of churches, police and other organisations in east Pembroke was presen...
DATE: Jan 24, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Jadiyah Bailey has been hailed as a top dancer by the directors of the performance group Troika.
The 15-year-old is also on the high honour roll at Berkeley Institute and the school’s youngest student to pass the maths GCSE.
Despite her academic acco...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell has been tasked with improving teaching and learning in public schools almost four years after a team of experts raised the alarm about standards.
Mrs McDonnell will give up her role running the Department of Ed...
DATE: Jan 22, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government today announced changes in the structure of the Department of Education.
Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell and Permanent Secretary Warren Jones both have new roles as part of the Department’s new focus on “teaching and learning’.
“To ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2011
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The Centre on Philanthropy is asking the public to help find and honour young people who are making Bermuda a better place.
The organisation will name the Young Philanthropist of the Year on February 24 and is now asking residents to nominate those w...
DATE: Jan 21, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Many success stories have come out of community centre Sandys 360 in its first year of being open.
The centre taught a double leg amputee to swim in three months and watched him go on to win two gold medals in swimming at a para-athlete competition....
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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A government worker has cooked up a pot luck luncheon that she hopes will raise necessary funds for her to return to school.
Christine Jones, 24, said when she was accepted into Shillington College to study media arts she was elated.
The receptionist...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
More than 250 people applied to join the Bermuda Fire Service last year but only 13 passed the entrance tests and accepted a position.
Chief fire officer Vincent Hollinsid said the Fire Service is still short of strength and if recruiting problems co...
DATE: Jan 20, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dr James Martin, a leading thinker in computer science, lectures this morning at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on a topic that has become his specialty: the future.
The good news for Bermuda is that, as an affluent country, the Island ...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Online classes are being taught by chat room as the Bermuda College tries to meet the needs of a web-savvy student population.
College President Duranda Greene said students today socialised, communicated and learned in different ways including by p...
DATE: Jan 19, 2011
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