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Zane DeSilva, Progressive Labour Party MP, said he intends to prove his innocence after being charged with misleading a public officer over a fundraising dinner last year.
Mr DeSilva, who was charged yesterday alongside his daughter Zarah Harper and ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Timeline: 25 years of reforming public education
1996: Education Act passes and middle schools are introduced by the United Bermuda Party government.
December 1998: The Progressive Labour Party wins power.
May 2007: The Hopkins R...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Government is considering a request to provide a multimillion-dollar guarantee in support of the stalled redevelopment of the Fairmont Southampton.
The request is the second after hotel owners Gencom last year failed to meet a number of condition...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The number of active Covid-19 cases has risen to 29 after seven positive tests were recorded yesterday.
Four of the new cases were imported by residents who arrived on an American Airlines flight from Miami on Monday and tested positive on arrival.
O...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Motorists will have to obtain a medical certificate proving they are fit to drive every time they renew their licence under legislation passed in the House of Assembly tonight.
But the age at which seniors have to take a re-test as been raised from ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Transport
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The vast majority of the $9 million budget reduction for the Ministry of Education was achieved through the defunding of posts and government austerity measures, the House of Assembly was told yesterday.
The overall budget for the Ministry of Educati...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Yesterday, The Royal Gazette
profiled the history of four primary schools slated for closure under Government’s education reform proposals. Today, we feature the other five which could shut. Sarah Lagan reports.
Elliot Primary School – 1846...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A beloved female worker at the Government Quarry got an emotional send-off on the streets of Hamilton yesterday by Works and Engineering staff.
Family and colleagues of Malaika Butler-Douglas, a 23-year veteran of the quarry and its first female truc...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Plans to erect an $18 million solar farm in St George’s have been submitted to the Department of Planning.
The application from IMG Holdings, received this week, proposed a 20-acre solar facility with about 20,000 solar cells installed on land to the...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two art exhibitions at the Bermuda National Gallery will open up to the public tomorrow.
Members of the public will be able to see Gherdai Hassell’s
I Am Because You Are and the collaborative exhibition Illusion and Abstraction: Capturing the Land...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson