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Much-loved educator Lorraine Fubler, who taught generations of Bermudian schoolchildren to read, has died at the age of 98.
Ms Fubler’s more than 40 years of teaching began at Central School, now Victor Scott Primary, where she trained before moving ...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
Pupils at CedarBridge Academy will today stage a special tribute to US writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died yesterday aged 86.
The tribute to Dr Angelou, who died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had ta...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A 16 year old girl was charged this morning with assaulting two teachers at Berkeley Institute.
Taree Wade, of Fentons Drive, Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully assaulting and causing bodily harm to Eva Showers and Mary Burgess on May 1.
Acco...
DATE: May 29, 2014
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Bermuda lobbying won Island residents the right to travel visa-free in 26 European countries, a PLP Shadow Minister has claimed.
MP Walton Brown said the UK had attempted to take credit for Bermuda winning visa-free access to the Schengen area of the...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
When an environmental sustainable development programme was first implemented in a failing school with a high dropout rate in Puerto Rico, few knew what kind of impact it would have on the students in that community.
But within just a few short year...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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The Island’s new Minister of Health, Seniors and the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, was sworn in at a ceremony at Government House yesterday.
Mrs Atherden, who said her experience on the Bermuda Health Council gives her “a unique perspective”, replace...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian student has been picked to attend a major conference on international relations and diplomacy in China.
Danielle Lightbourn was picked from entries from the US and around the world after she shone at the Global Young Leaders Conference, h...
DATE: May 27, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Government is to explore the possibility of introducing a loan programme to help students fund the cost of further education.
A scheme had existed whereby previous Governments had acted as guarantors for bank loans taken out by cash-strapped students...
DATE: May 27, 2014
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Gareth Finighan
OBA MPs last night praised ex-Premier Craig Cannonier for stepping down as leader amid the political turbulence caused by the Jetgate row.
Junior Education Minister Leah Scott said: “I think he did what was necessary for the people of this country an...
DATE: May 21, 2014
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
There’s no greater feeling in the world than the one you get helping to save someone’s life — that’s according to Peter Hughes, a visiting lifeguard trainer from the Red Cross.
During his time as a lifeguard, Mr Hughes had been involved in three res...
DATE: May 21, 2014
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