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Education Ministry cash was spent on programmes that weren’t supposed to receive it as staff abused the Government grants system, Minister Dame Jennifer Smith said yesterday.
Dame Jennifer pledged to tighten up controls as she explained how Education...
DATE: Mar 08, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
There are three times as many part-time students as full-time at the Bermuda College, according to data released by the Education Minister.
Dame Jennifer Smith responded in the House of Assembly to parliamentary questions posed by Shadow Education M...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Education
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An award-winning teenaged sailor was killed in a road accident on Saturday night.
Vershon Simmons, 18, of Pembroke, died in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after his motorcycle crashed with a car on Harbour Road, Paget, at 9.30pm.
Described as an i...
DATE: Mar 07, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermudian students were in New York this week as part of a UN Conference on the impact of the internet
A total of 24 students from Warwick Academy, CedarBridge Academy, Mount St Agnes, Berkeley Institute and Saltus attended the 35th annual United Nat...
DATE: Mar 05, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Several Bermudian students spent the summer learning about the many facets of oceanography.
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) Explorers' Series, Water Moves, started two weeks ago and continues until March 9.
As part of the education pr...
DATE: Mar 04, 2011
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Just one person has been prosecuted for animal neglect in Bermuda in the past five years, prompting concerns from campaigners.
SPCA director Kim Sherlaw says the charity is hampered from taking court action because there is no police officer assigned...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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Government Senate Leader David Burch condemned adults who routinely smoke drugs in front of children, as the Upper House yesterday passed a bill cracking down on doping in sport.
The Anti-Doping in Sport Act moves Bermuda’s laws into line with other ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
BHS student Mariangela Bucci has been named the 2011 Young Philanthropist of the year for her work in the community.
Both her school and her mother nominated the 17-year-old student who has worked heavily with environmental group Greenrock, where she...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Shadow Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night asked Premier Paula Cox to name the Cabinet consultants who have had their services axed after “unnecessarily feeding at the trough”.
The Opposition MP applauded the fact that the Cabine...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A reduction in spending on Cabinet Office departments in the coming fiscal year will not be as dramatic as Government would like us to believe, according to former Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons.
He told the House of Assembly last night that the 17 ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
