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Government is to push ahead with a radical overhaul of the school system to decentralise education and place more power in the hands of principals.
Members of the reform team responsible for implementing the ten recommendations of the Hopkins Report ...
DATE: May 29, 2008
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The Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police said that Caribbean Police services should adopt Bermuda's strategy on ethical conduct.
The subject of ethical standards in law enforcement agencies was brought up at the annual general meeting of ...
DATE: May 29, 2008
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man accused of assaulting his elderly mother and cousins was sentenced to six months in prison and two years probation when he appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Vincent Patrick Smith, of Hamilton Parish, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his...
DATE: May 29, 2008
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Edward Rance has been named Bermuda's Rhodes Scholar for 2008 by the Bermuda Rhodes Scholarship selection committee.
Mr. Rance, who graduated from Saltus Grammar School in 2003, has gone on to complete the International Baccalaureate at Sevenoaks Sch...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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A trespasser who admitted entering a home to eat food received a three year suspended jail sentence in Magistrates' Court.
Wayne George Tyrell, 34, of no fixed address and an admitted heroin addict, received the sentence, suspended for 24 months, aft...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Her 23-year-old creative and artistic daughter was shot dead by the 15-year-old girl she was babysitting.
From that unspeakable act – made all the more incomprehensible because it had been committed by a church pastor's adopted daughter – a brilliant...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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With Father's Day approaching on June 15, family advocacy group ChildWatch is hoping to highlight the importance of fathers through a letter-writing competition.
ChildWatch has been running adverts in The Royal Gazette encouraging children aged seven...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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A group of volunteers has been licensed to take part in a pilot programme to cull the invasive Lionfish which are threatening Bermuda's reef ecosystem and commercial fishing.
The initial group of 31 volunteers has been issued special licenses by the ...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Nine local charities received donations totalling nearly $500,000 from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation during the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008.
A statement from the foundation, which has donated more than $39.3 millionsince 198...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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The number of prisoners granted early release has shot up, while the number of those incarcerated has plummeted.
Just eight prisoners were granted parole before the end of their court-imposed sentence in 2003/04, compared to 53 last year.
However, th...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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