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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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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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A Bermuda-based reinsurance company has donated $50,000 to help “Bermudians from all walks of life” get their GED diplomas.
Ariel Re, which says it believes education is key to the success of local people and the Island itself, donated the cash to t...
DATE: Jan 18, 2011
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Five scooters specially built by JetBlue staff in Bermuda have been donated to two of the Island’s children’s charities.
The airline company combined a team building day with helping out the community. Employees worked together to build the scooters ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2011
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Scott Neil
A social inquiry report was ordered for 40-year-old woman who solicited cash, pretending it was earmarked for a charity.
Fredericka Fox, of Pembroke, admitted in Magistrates’ Court to dishonestly obtaining money. The Angle Street resident said she wa...
DATE: Jan 18, 2011
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Government's Adopt-a-School Programme has raised $70,000 towards the upkeep of the Island's public schools.
In the latest donation, the Ministry of Education announced that Somerset Primary School had received $10,000 from the Green Family Scholarshi...
DATE: Jan 15, 2011
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Appeals will not be heard from the parents of eight students expelled from Saltus Grammar School, according to school trustees head Will Cox.
A 14-year-old student was sent to hospital with a fractured rib, minor concussion and bruising, following a ...
DATE: Jan 13, 2011
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than a million dollars, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of prayers were sent to Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.
Days after the natural disaster had wreaked havoc on the impoverished Caribbean natio...
DATE: Jan 12, 2011
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There is a long road ahead to rebuilding Haiti, but local charity Cornerstone Foundation is determined to make a difference one mission trip at a time.
Foundation president Pastor Gary Simons has so far led the organisation on seven mission trips to...
DATE: Jan 12, 2011
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