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Saltus has reported its top year for the GCSE exam results, head teacher Claire Charlemagne announced.
Ninety-eight percent of students in Year 11 received passes, at grades C and above, for five or more subjects.
Of those, 93 percent achieved five p...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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A young man was fatally stabbed and another was shot as violent crime reared its ugly head again on a grim day for Bermuda.
Steven Jireh Iris, 22, died after suffering what police described as “serious stab wounds to the abdomen” in the first inciden...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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A lane of Angle Street in Hamilton, closed since April after a retaining wall collapsed, will not reopen until October, a Public Works spokesman has advised.
Traffic was reduced to one lane between Cedar Avenue and Brunswick Street after the wall top...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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The Island’s public schools have been given upgrades to the tune of $1.27 million.
Public Works Minister Trevor Moniz said the work, undertaken in tandem with the Ministry of Education, would be finished in time for the schools’ opening date of Septe...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Statistician Cordell Riley yesterday expressed disappointment at Finance Minister Bob Richards’ criticism of his jobs loss forecasts, saying his company has been making such predictions without fail for two decades.
“I was quite surprised and disappo...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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The Bermuda Feline Assistance Bureau (BFAB) is calling on Government to find a new approach to deal with feral chickens after a cat was found “near death” from a possible poisoning.
A BFAB spokesman said the animal was found on Cooper’s Island Beach ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Bermudian educator, poet and writer Melodye Van Putten — the woman behind Ashay University — will host a series of self-knowledge classes “designed for the community of adult learners”.
Modelled after her character education programme ‘Ashay: Rites o...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Three men were yesterday accused of serious sexual assault in separate cases in Magistrates’ Court.
None of the people involved can be named because of legal reasons.
A Sandys man was charged with serious sexual assault and forcing alcohol and drug...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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A police officer who attended the accident in which two brothers were severely injured described the scene as “very graphic”.
Police officer in charge Tavoris Douglas gave his account of the aftermath of the February 29, 2012 Woodlands Road crash in ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Hotelier David Dodwell is confident that he can find investment for his latest project, saying that there is renewed optimism about the Island from financial backers.
Mr Dodwell is a shareholder IRC Sandys, which has leased land from Government quang...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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