1146 results returned for search: "education AND " author Jonathan Bell
Government Health Insurance will expand to cover bills for generic drugs and GP visits, according to the Throne Speech.
Prescription drug benefits under the FutureCare insurance plan are also to be amended, to pay the full cost of generic medications...
DATE: Nov 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
It was all smiles in a crowded Cabinet Office room as Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith thanked organisations that have signed on for a work experience programme.
The Career Pathways programme has taken flight, with 223 public senior school stud...
DATE: Nov 05, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new Bermuda Educators’ Council has been elected following a hiatus of several months.
A chairman has yet to be appointed by the 11-member group, created in 2002 to oversee standards at the Island’s public and private schools
The previous council’s ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Empowering cash-strapped community groups, and bringing sex offenders’ registry legislation before Parliament, are among the Opposition’s pledges in its platform for crime and education.
And an expansion of preschool places, especially for single par...
DATE: Oct 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudians risk losing access to the top jobs if they continue to lag in higher education, Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons warned.
The One Bermuda Alliance MP also reaffirmed his party’s promise to bring in a technical curriculum at the middl...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian teacher has questioned why she can’t get a job at a public school when Government is struggling to fill vacancies with educators from abroad.
Shar-Dae Whitter said she was a substitute teacher at CedarBridge Academy last year and Whitney ...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Inspired by the entertainers of Bermuda’s “golden age”, composer and pianist Dylan Hollis is hard at work on what he does best — creating music.
His piece ‘Chords of Humanity’ impressed humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres enough to make an ap...
DATE: Oct 20, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
White privilege means higher pay for white residents — but complex factors also affect the wage gap, according to one employment head.
Census statistics show consistent variance in median annual incomes for white and black workers who hold the same l...
DATE: Oct 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Black Bermudians with the same academic qualifications as their white counterparts are still earning significantly less, according to Census statistics.
Median annual income for black residents holding a bachelor’s degree was $80,640 in 2010 — compar...
DATE: Oct 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
He’s no stranger to climbing mountains and Eric Robinson’s first hike for charity proved exhilarating as he expected and also brutal.
Mr Robinson took on the Sierra Nevada on the US West Coast to raise money for the Island’s at-risk youth.
Crossing 1...
DATE: Oct 16, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Campaigns
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
