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The black Bermudian who fought in the American Civil War with the first coloured regiment in the United States has been revealed as Robert John Simmons, who is thought to have been from St. George's.
The Royal Gazette reported on Wednesday that a new...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Dr. Robert Allen was in the right place at the right time when he came to Bermuda to celebrate his 60th birthday just over a week ago.
As a presenter at a conference on African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, he wa...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Bermuda's Minister of Sports Randy Horton and his ministry will be in the international limelight tomorrow evening when he receives the Institute for International Sport's Power of Good Award.
The 57-year-old Government minister will receive the hono...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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A CARIBBEAN-born local language teacher has received one of the highest French honours - knighthood for her service to the culture and language of France.
Riquette Bonne-Smith has been awarded the French Knighthood in the Order of Academic Palms (Ch...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Portuguese rights activist Robert Pires yesterday welcomed a decision by Bermuda College to include a person of Portuguese descent as an honourary fellow.
Bermuda Electric Light Company president Garry Madeiros became only the second person from the ...
DATE: May 31, 2002
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Minister for Education and Development Paula Cox last night urged parents and schools to put talented students forward for a new programme for academic excellence.
Ms Cox said she fully supported the newly-formed Institute for Talented Students in Be...
DATE: May 30, 2002
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Foreign workers are propping up the Island's contributory pensions scheme, the Senate was reminded yesterday.
"It's a strange fact that nobody seems to appreciate. We've got an economy that cannot be staffed (fully) by the Bermudian population," said...
DATE: May 30, 2002
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A new international body should be set up to monitor historic black sites to avoid theme parks along the lines of Disneyland being set up, the African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference heard yesterday.
Anthropologist Dr. Jay Haviser said there was a...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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The need for an alternative school in Bermuda is on the rise as no less than 83 students were referred to the Adult Education School (AES) from the public school system during the last year.
The teenagers, from both CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley I...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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Black parents in Bermuda must take responsibility for teaching their children African values and black history, a workshop at the African Diaspora Heritage Trail conference heard yesterday.
Melodye-Micere Stewart, an Africalogist and consultant to th...
DATE: May 28, 2002
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