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Legislation to create signature schools and axe middle schools was tabled yesterday in the House of Assembly. MPs were told the new-style schools will have “signature learning programmes” added to the normal curriculum. Diallo Rabain, the education m...

The Government and Opposition sparred into last night over the Budget for the coming fiscal year and the island’s way to economic recovery out of the pandemic. It came after Cole Simons, the Opposition leader, gave the Reply to the Budget in the Hous...

The Opposition’s Reply to the Budget is scheduled to dominate today’s sitting of the House of Assembly. Cole Simons, the Opposition leader and shadow finance minister, will respond to the 2021-22 Budget delivered last Friday by Curtis Dickinson, the ...

A controversial law to legalise cannabis will be sent back to the House of Assembly after Senators voted against the bill yesterday afternoon. The Cannabis Licensing Act, which sets out a regulatory framework for growing, selling, and using the drug,...

The Government’s plans for economic recovery over the in the new financial year were branded “aspirational and low on detail” by the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday. Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, said Bermuda’s debt combined with pension ...

A cut in the number of public primary schools from three to two in Pembroke would still mean enough space for all the parish’s pupils, a virtual meeting on changes to the education system heard last night. Kalmar Richards, the education commissioner,...

A Warwick woman who admitted unlawfully assaulting two schoolchildren was handed a conditional discharge in Magistrates’ Court. Michelle Burrows Robinson, 48, of Somers Lane in Warwick, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of unlawful assault datin...

Bullying will not be “allowed or tolerated” in Bermuda public education, Diallo Rabain has said. The education minister highlighted alleged harassment of students on the basis of religion. Mr Rabain was responding to a February 1 statement by the act...

History may be preserved in the proposed remake of two Devonshire primary schools under the Government’s proposed educational reforms, a consultation forum heard last night. Diallo Rabain, the education minister, told Devonshire residents that while ...

Registration will be needed for virtual open house events on public school enrolment after “incidents” at two meetings, the Commissioner of Education said last night. Kalmar Richards said the move was part of strengthened security rules. A ministry s...