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An expanded work experience programme and a hall of achievement highlighting alumni success stories are among the proposals for the coming year. And Mr Francis yesterday vowed that 85 percent of the class of 2014 would graduate with honours as a resu...

Education Minister Nalton Brangman has pledged to raise the bar on the quality of teaching in the Island’s schools. And he vowed to boost qualification requirements “for all subject areas and specialisations” in a bid to improve standards of teacher ...

Bermuda’s Aquarium is to get a new roof, Environment and Planning Minister Sylvan Richards announced. The job has been budgeted at $2.2 million. “The main building at the complex is rather old, and it is important that we take steps now to secure the...

A teen was stabbed by a former friend because gang associations pitted them against one another, Magistrates’ Court heard. Leshaun Wolffe, 17, punctured Tijuan Swan’s lung in the attack at Albuoy’s Point Ferry Terminal on August 1. The Kitchener Clos...

Education has been spared budget cuts, with $145 million set aside for the year ahead. Bermuda Union of Teachers head Mike Charles gave this year’s Budget a passing grade. “We need all we can get,” Mr Charles told The Royal Gazette. The figures alloc...

A teenager yesterday pleaded guilty to the 2011 murder of an 18-year-old boy on the Railway Trail. Malcolm Outerbridge was found mortally stabbed near his Warwick home on October 28, 2011, and died of his wounds in hospital. Rashaun Codrington, who w...

The Island’s next Education Commissioner will be chosen from overseas as well as local candidates, in time for the coming school year. The decision was made to ensure a credible pool of qualified applicants, Board of Education chairman Curtis Dickins...

Work skills training, and grappling with the impact of the recession, were at the fore in the latest Bermuda College annual report. College President Duranda Greene said the 2011/12 academic year saw a rise in partnerships with Government and busines...

Tougher rules for Government aid have been given a cautious assessment by the Island’s social agencies. The stricter measures for both Financial Assistance and Child Day Care will see Government requiring certain clients to take “mandatory life skill...