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make 1999 a bumper year.
A host of new attractions and incentive schemes are aimed at making the facility a "must-see'' stop on every visitor's list.
Staff are currently working hard towards the unveiling of four new exhibits and tempting promotions ...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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Tennis Club's gym raised $1,000 in a ten-kilometre charity walk and recently presented it to the Council Partners Charitable Trust. From left, are fitness instructors Marcie Pedro and Jennifer Gibbons, and Austin Warner representing the Trust.
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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dispute among some staff.
Up to eight workers had staged a "sick-out'' protest over staffing levels at the North Street centre but meetings have now resolved the problems and the employees are back at work.
Yesterday, TCD director Donald Dane confirm...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999
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One of Bermuda's leading education officials yesterday called on parents to join the drive to help children read and write.
Languages expert Dr. Norma Hendrickson, a former teacher at Sandys Secondary and headteacher at Prospect Secondary School, spo...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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great-grandfather Joseph Henry Thomas, a prominent black Bermudian in the 19th Century.
Born 1823 Died: April 29, 1908 (at the age of 85 years) 1844: Member of the Founding Committee of the Industrious Man's Library `for the Benefit of the Black an...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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Bermudian slave woman, Mary Prince, was an extraordinary person.
Born in 1788 at Brackish Pond, Bermuda, she is famous for being the first black British woman to escape from the abomination of slavery and publish a record of her experiences.
Her stor...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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performing arts'' this weekend in the latest show for Kidfest '99.
Tales & Scales, a non-profit organisation based in Indiana, was founded in 1986 to "fulfil a need for quality arts programming'' for children and family audiences.
The four-musician t...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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"Chained on the Rock'' is a compelling historical work objectively written by the late Cyril Outerbridge Packwood, a noted historian and scholar. This graphic text about slavery in Bermuda was published in 1975 and is an expansive source. It is a mus...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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Samuel David Robinson (1848-1920) and Elmira (Thomas) Robinson (1854-1940).
She died in 1973.
She received her early education at the Bermuda Collegiate Institute and the Berkeley Institute where she was a very young member of the Berkeley's first cl...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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It was not such a long time ago -- in the 1930s. A young child, growing up and reaching out, was denied admittance to the Bermuda Public Library -- because he was black.
In 1985, the same young boy, long since grown to manhood, returned to that libra...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999
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