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All appeals against the suspension of students from public school were quashed in the last year, the Education Minister has revealed.
told the House of Assembly on Monday that parents appealed the suspensions for bad behaviour ? six from senior schoo...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006
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Government is not taking seriously the problem of children being sent to school without breakfast, it was alleged this week.Shadow Race Relations Minister told in the House of Assembly: ?I don?t think you understand the depth of this problem.?
His U...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006
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Teachers angrily hit back last night at a Government backbencher?s claims that they are failing the Island?s public school students.
Michael Charles, general secretary of Bermuda Union of Teachers, described former minister Renee Webb?s comments in t...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006
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A carpenter giving evidence in the $1.3 million fraud case against former Bermuda Housing Corporation property officer Terrence Smith yesterday continued to outline how Smith benefited from the alleged con.
Self-employed carpenter Steven Barbosa spen...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006
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The Bermuda Regiment?s should continue with its current role ? and should continue to draw most of its recruits via conscription ? according to a review commissioned by Governor Sir John Vereker.
But the Regiment must start replacing is ageing equipm...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006
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Shadow Attorney General Trevor Moniz has hit out at late Government reports which give hopelessly outdated information.
He spoke out after the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board report 2003 was released to Parliament within the last few days while ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006
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An appeal has begun into the conviction of a couple found to have cocaine valued at over $200,000 at their home in Somerset.
Jennifer Medeiros and OShane Eugene Darrell were sentenced to seven years and ten years respectively last summer after being ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006
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Bacardi International has donated a beach-wheelchair to a disabled Bermudian boy so he can enjoy the beach this summer.
Jeffrey Medeiros, 15, was diagnosed with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy eight years ago which his mother Ana Medeiros said also...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006
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Public school students? attainment levels have not risen in the past 13 years despite the introduction of new tests, according to the Shadow Education Minister.
Neville Darrell told the House of Assembly yesterday that the Terra Nova test which pupil...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006
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A key witness in the $1.3 million alleged fraud case against former Bermuda Housing Corporation worker Terrence Smith has recalled once handing him around $40,000 cash in profit.
Carpenter Steven Barbosa claimed that on another occasion the accused m...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006
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