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Government filled 63 teacher vacancies over the summer, out of the roughly 900 jobs across the public school system.
Describing staffing as “a moving target” that had posed challenges in the past, Acting Education Minister Grant Gibbons said another ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Big-hearted musicians have rallied to the aid of local performer Mike James, after his Warwick studio was torched in a suspected arson.
Mr James, who performs as “Mr Mikey”, thanked fellow musicians Donald (Detrimental) Robinson and Steve Easton for ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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The Regiment is offering a $300 incentive payment for all qualified volunteers who sign up for, and complete, 2014 recruit training in a drive to increase the number of volunteer soldiers.
Volunteers must be aged 18 to 45, must not have been previous...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Bermuda’s laws still allow people to be incarcerated for unpaid debt — something eliminated more than two centuries ago in the UK — but Attorney General Mark Pettingill insists Bermuda is “years beyond that”.
At the same time, he agreed that many of ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Bermuda’s credentials as a tourist destination are creating a buzz on social network sites, according to officials.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism said that more than 80,000 consumers are tweeting, liking, pinning and talking about the Islan...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Tourism
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Six young Bermudians have been given a taste of working in the high-tech world of information technology after graduating from a charity summer programme.
The students completed 12-week internships with companies signed up to the Technology Leadershi...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Trailblazing businesswoman Sybil Young — who along with her husband was fined $1 million dollars in the late 1980s for violating currency control laws — has died at the age of 81.
In an active life, Mrs Young also helped establish motocross and power...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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With 226 formerly unemployed Bermudians being hired in the second quarter of the year, Government is claiming a policy success story.
The policy which would give employers a two-year payroll tax holiday for new Bermudian hires became effective on Apr...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Politics
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Finance Minister Bob Richards insisted this week that recently released budget figures are indications for optimism about the economy — even if revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 are showing less than $300,000 increase over the same period...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Politics
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An accident at Crow Lane roundabout caused massive delays to motorists travelling during yesterday morning’s rush hour.
The accident happened around 8.35am, a Police spokesman said.
“Details are sketchy but it appears that a PTB bus was travelling in...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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