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Registration for children due to start preschool and Primary 1 for the next school year has been delayed because of low student enrolment. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education said: “This delay comes as a result of the need for the Ministry of...

A “damning” report into the condition of the island’s schools highlighted systematic problems that must be addressed, according to the One Bermuda Alliance. Cole Simons, Shadow Minister of Education, thanked the Government for its transparency in rel...

More than half the sex abuse cases reported to government watchdogs last year were child-on-child assaults, the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate that 51 per cent of sex abuse allegations refer...

A demand to find out how much cash raised by the controversial sugar tax had been used to boost health was made yesterday. The One Bermuda Alliance said it wanted details of where the $700,000 in extra cash raised since last year from the tax had gon...

A student at Whitney Institute Middle School injured two others with “equipment from an art class” in a “recent incident”, according to Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education. Ms Richards said yesterday: “Any incident such as this is taken ve...

Extra cash from cost savings in the Department of Education have gone to finance special programmes, the Minister of Education said. Diallo Rabain told the House of Assembly that there was no increase in the department’s $114 million budget, but it ...

The Budget showed the Government had listened to hoteliers’ fears over rising land taxes, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday. Stephen Todd, CEO of the BHA, said hoteliers were pleased that Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, confirmed t...

A football club’s educational foundation is to mark its fifteenth year of helping young Bermudians. The foundation, set up by Pembroke Hamilton Club in 2004, has supported more than 40 students who were involved in the PHC sports programme. O’Shandah...

Removal of mould in a Pembroke school cost more than $444,000, new figures have revealed. And renovations to the bathrooms at a Warwick school cost about $400,000. The cost of the mould work at Dellwood Middle School and the price of new bathrooms a...

The owner of an island perfumery is the new Honorary Consul of Canada. Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, the Canadian-born operator of Lili Bermuda, wants to use the position to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. She said: “It’s a great...