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Victor Scott Primary has received a sweet donation of fresh fruit each morning and its students are reaping the rewards, according to principal Valerie Williams.
Sun Life Financial has provided 130 students, between ages five and 11, with a nutritio...
DATE: Jun 29, 2011
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Teenaged boys end up being kicked out of school because of insufficient classroom support to deal with issues from their home lives, according to a new report.
Many young black males are exposed to violence and drugs or alcohol abuse in their lives, ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2011
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Tim Smith
While many Bermudians know how Sea Venture survivors built a pinnace called Deliverance to deliver them from Bermuda after wrecking off the Island in 1609, their second, smaller pinnace, Patience, is often forgotten.
In fact, not much is known about ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2011
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Bermuda Institute student Vashon Williams has been declared the winner of the 2011 Alpha Beautillion, earning a $5,000 bursary award.
The 17-year-old student association president beat out five other finalists after taking part in a six-month program...
DATE: Jun 28, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Progressive Labour Party MP Wayne Furbert is going back to school to do a doctoral degree in international business and finance.
Mr Furbert says he’s fulfilling a lifelong dream to pursue higher learning, and is doing it by e-learning to maintain his...
DATE: Jun 28, 2011
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Tim Smith
An anti-racism group wants to see better statistics collected and reported in Bermuda to help tackle the Island’s ills.
Lynne Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (CURB), says current, concrete information on poverty, crime, ed...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Sam Strangeways
Students need to provide leadership to fellow young people to keep them on the right path, according to Bermudian motivational speaker Dennis Rahiim Watson.
Making a keynote address to the Student Colloquium on Sustainable Development, Mr Watson warn...
DATE: Jun 27, 2011
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Despite reaping less than its usual number of pledges, this year’s Catlin End-to-End was able to present Bermuda charities with $282,500.
The Island’s biggest annual fundraising event also celebrated breaking the $4 million mark for its 24 years in o...
DATE: Jun 24, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Today’s teachers often have to compete with cell phones, computers, and video game systems for their students’ attention.
Educators at Dellwood Middle School are fighting back with a special programme that uses computer games to improve students’ rea...
DATE: Jun 23, 2011
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High costs have forced the Sunshine League charity to scrap its residential foster care for children at the end of this month.
Five full-time staff have also been made redundant, and 13 part-time employees have lost their jobs. Assisted by Child and ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
