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A new pressure group yesterday questioned Covid public safety policies that affect schoolchildren – including an insistence on masks in classrooms. Us For Them Bermuda was set up last week to give children “a voice” and ensure that “their interests a...

Senators are expected to sit for a short session tomorrow when the Upper House resumes after the summer break. There are just two bills on the order paper – the Human Rights Amendment Act 2021, and the Marine & Ports Services Amendment Act. The human...

A project developer to draw up a plan for the shake-up of the island’s school system is being looked for by the Government. A Request For Proposal was published last week that asked consultancy firms to submit “a strategic programme and project devel...

Public schools are to remain off-limits until further notice after a surge in Covid-19 cases, it was confirmed this weekend. The news came after the Government announced last week that schools would return to remote learning for the first week of ter...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice. Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year. But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...

Public schools will hold remote lessons when children go back to school on Thursday in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases. The ruling was made after a meeting of the Education Emergency Measures Committee (EEMC) today. Diallo Rabain, the education...

A team of health professionals working with the intellectually disabled has moved to new offices. The Community Intellectual Disability Team – which provides a range of services for intellectual disability clients and their families at home – was pr...

The Government is to tighten Covid-19 safety rules in public schools – just 24 hours after it claimed that stricter regulations were not needed. The announcement came after one public school – the Bermuda Institute – revealed tonight that it will be ...

Children returning to school next week will have to wear masks throughout the day, according to Covid-19 safety protocols. Diallo Rabain, the minister of education, outlined the measures that will be required for public school students when the new t...

Youngsters at the island’s two public secondary schools will be taught how to prepare for college – by specially trained senior pupils. The Mirrors Programme has introduced PeerForward – a course designed to improve college preparedness for children ...