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It’s common to hear about a new scholarship being handed out to an aspiring lawyer or business student.
But for students hoping to venture into a career in hospitality, financial support can be scarce.
SKAL International Bermuda is aiming to be the...
DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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The Salvation Army “hasn’t lost momentum” on replacing its decaying emergency housing shelter, new divisional commander Frank Pittman has vowed.
Major Pittman, who assumed his post a month ago, said he’d been taken aback by the decrepit state of the ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2014
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Tired of seeing trees along your street hacked to pieces in the name of “tree trimming” or road clearing? The Bermuda Botanical Society believes there is a need for more formal training in horticultural and landscaping on the Island.
To this end they...
DATE: Sep 02, 2014
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
More than 1,800 people have taken training classes that focus on protecting children from sexual abuse.
The free course is run by SCARS (Saving Children and Revealing Secrets), a charity that aims to reduce the risk of youngsters being molested and t...
DATE: Sep 02, 2014
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A trio of Regiment soldiers are to take part in a massive British Army exercise in Africa.
Lieutenant Paolo Odoli, Colour Sergeant Jason Smith and Sergeant Dejion Stange will leave this weekend to travel to England to meet up with the Welsh Guards Ba...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A young Bermudian student desperate to obtain her degree is pleading for help covering another year in college, after being forced to defer her education twice.
Kahnae Bean, 21, has been assisted by the New Beginnings Educational Trust — but the char...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
We take time out this week to pay tribute to one of Bermuda’s outstanding educators Martha Alvira Francis, B.A. (Queen’s University), J.P.
She passed away peacefully in her sleep early on Thursday morning after a short illness in King Edward Hospital...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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Students at Warwick Academy have achieved high grades in their IGCSE qualifications.
The school has reported a 99.7 percent pass rate in the exams, with principal Maggie McCorkell noting that there were some “exceptional individual successes”, includ...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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Banking giant HSBC yesterday celebrated ten years in Bermuda with a massive $500,000 donation to education.
HSBC donated $250,000 to the Reading Clinic and a further $250,000 to charity Knowledge Quest, which helps students struggling to pay for thei...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A quadriplegic who has spent a nightmare 40 years “incarcerated” on a hospital ward for elderly dementia patients could be moving to a new home.
Health chiefs have finally agreed to allow Luke Caines to move out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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