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November 18, 2010
School primary school security guard arrested over student sex abuse claims

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

ALLEGATIONS of sexual abuse at a primary school has led to government fears of incest and molestation on a wider scale in a local community.

The alarm bells rang after a security guard at Gambier Village Primary School was arrested over claims of sexual abuse by several students. He is now being questioned by police.

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May 01, 2024
Education minister reports decline in school campus violence incidents

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin says despite the recent encounters with school violence numbers on that issue are down. Hanna-Martin maintains that the Ministry of Education will continue to work on safety in schools by putting measures and policies and in place to mitigate violence. Acknowledging that it can be more challenging than it seems, Hanna-Martin [...]

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June 25, 2021
Medical school to receive students by next January

STATE Minister for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson said yesterday construction of a medical school in Grand Bahama by the Western Atlantic University School of Medicine is progressing and should be ready to receive students by January next year.

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April 30, 2024
Three Students Hospitalized After Ingesting Marijuana at School

NASSAU, BAHAMAS –Three juvenile male students received medical treatment after they reportedly ingested suspected marijuana while on campus at a government school located on Baillou Hill Road. Authorities say they  were notified around noon yesterday that the ninth grade students consumed the suspected  illegal substance and became ill,  including becoming unconscious.  T...

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April 29, 2010
28 Children stabbed at Chinese nursery school

An unemployed man has attacked and injured 28 young children and three adults at nursery school in eastern China, in the third school stabbing frenzy in a month.

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April 29, 2010
High school students in Haiti protest

Hundreds of high school students held demonstrations for the second straight day here Tuesday to demand that their schools be cleared of homeless people so that classes can resume.

A crowd of protesters in high school uniforms hurled rocks at the Education Ministry building, which was destroyed in the quake.

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April 27, 2024
Central Bank's Financial Literacy Expo Empowers High School Students

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - The initiative coincides with financial literacy month, recognized globally in April. But this year's event took a different spin.

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April 25, 2024
Education Minister: EMR School Violence Unfortunate, Embarrassing

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Education Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin saying arrests were made in connection to the viral video of a fight at the Eight Mile Rock high school in Grand Bahama.

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April 25, 2024
Weller Development Partners Sponsors Training for Beacon School Educators

GRAND BAHAMA, BAHAMAS - Weller Development Partners sponsored a group of educators from the Beacon School who traveled to the Conference for Exceptional Children (CEC) in San Antonio, Texas.

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April 24, 2024
Public school campus discipline programme pending

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The Ministry of Education is in the process of implementing a campus discipline plan according Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin. Her comments came on the heels of an altercation at the Eight Mile Rock High School campus Monday where a student reportedly got into a fist fight with a School Resource Officer [...]

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