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through the use of a new reporting system. The change has been so marked that the Ministry of Education is planning to use its attendance recording system throughout public schools. After speaking with the Ministry's truancy officer Leonard (Shinah) ...

list of his assets for a bankruptcy hearing. The former MP will return to court on January 26 when a statement of affairs must be produced for the Registrar of Companies. Appearing before Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons yesterday, Mr. Hall asked fo...

After nearly 100 days as Government's top truancy officer, Leonard (Shinah) Simons says efforts to improve school attendance are beginning to work. While he admitted that the truancy problem was serious, Mr. Simons yesterday told The Royal Gazette th...

The much talked about bill to ban capital and corporal punishment was tabled before Parliament yesterday. The Abolition of Capital and Corporal Punishment Act of 1999 was laid before the House of Assembly on Friday by Development and Opportunity Mini...

back -- because he gave it all away! Through a friend, Frederick Yearwood, who was chairman of the BMA from 1979 until 1982, has appealed to the public to get any Bermuda notes released during the years of his tenure. It is understood Mr. Yearwood h...

Opposition Sen. Mark Pettingill yesterday blasted Government's plan to hold certain Magistrates' Court hearings via a video link-up before having verbatim reports. And Sen. Pettingill, a defence lawyer, abstained from voting for an amendment to the I...

A Senator has claimed the closure of the Marriott Castle Harbour Resort has placed Bermuda in an "unfavourable position'' and causes him "grave'' concern. Opposition Sen. Kim Swan , speaking during the motion to adjourn yesterday, said although he wa...

Young Bermudians must look at the facts of history and be more positive in their outlook if the Island is to prosper in the future, a Senator has claimed. Speaking during the motion to Adjourn, Government Sen. Calvin Smith -- often mimicking a young ...

sale of houses to foreign buyers. Appleby, Spurling and Kempe property department head John Barritt, a UBP MP, has written to clients encouraging them to contact his staff about this fall's change in the minimum Annual Rental Value for property that ...

him red-handed in a drug transaction, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Meanwhile his alleged accomplice, cruise ship employee Brian Mervin Williams, is serving a 14 month jail term after having pleaded guilty to drug importation that month. The local ma...