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There are many reasons why the students at the Adult Education School failed to achieve their potential in a traditional school setting, but the homely atmosphere of the AES and the small classes ensure that no one is forgotten or left behind.
During...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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Grassroots members of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) will get to hear first hand the circumstances surrounding the recent challenge to the leadership of Premier Jennifer Smith by some members of the party's Parliamentary caucus.
The party's branc...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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The civil trial of a former Bank of Butterfield loan officer began in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Sanford Edward Seepersad, 33, of Harrington Sound Road, Smith's Parish, is being pursued by his former employer to pay back funds owed to them after t...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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Bermudians will be encouraged to travel further afield to Africa and parts of the Caribbean if they learn more about the African Diaspora, it was claimed yesterday.
And more people of African descent will be tempted to come to Bermuda if they discove...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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Two young professionals have recently returned to the Island after spending six, eye-opening weeks in Brazil as the first ever Bermudians to participate in Rotary International's exchange programme aimed at budding professionals.
Lee Simmons and Kenn...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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Collector of Customs Winifred Fostine-Desilva has denied that long delays at the airport are the fault of a festering airport industrial dispute.
The claims were made by Opposition Tourism spokesman David Dodwell who said the hold up was damaging tou...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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For every 650 people stuffed into a slave ship - or "death ship" - only roughly 150 would survive the passage, delegates to the African Diaspora Heritage Trail conference heard yesterday.
At a conference workshop entitled "Black Holocaust", J. Justin...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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Despite the early morning start, Gombey dancers brought the crowd to their feet yesterday as the African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference officially opened at Southampton Princess.
The conference “seeks to span time and distance as we acknowledge t...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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Retail sales for March have showed a jump of 3.8 percent over the same period last year with gross turnover hitting $42.9 million.
After adjusting for inflation the total volume of retail sales increased one percent over the year.
The Government figu...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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Government is gearing up to break expected strike action today by cabbies rebelling against plans to introduce a mandatory cab tracking system.
However last night Bermuda Taxi Operators Association (BTOA) spokesperson Lee Tucker said there would be n...
DATE: May 27, 2002
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