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The state of Bermuda’s education system and efforts at reform have been highly contentious issues for decades. And the latest attempt at reform, which includes the closure of nine primary schools and abolition of the middle schools system, is no exc...

The government’s school shake-up plan is almost certain to fail because of “considerable shortcomings”, a joint report from East End Parent Teacher Associations has warned. The Support the St George’s Parish Community Response report was written ...

Money will be found to carry out Government’s plan to transform the education system no matter the cost, the Minister of Education has pledged. Diallo Rabain declined to put a figure on the estimated cost of the proposals. He said: “Cost is not somet...

As part of The Royal Gazette’s Schools Report series, Sarah Lagan last week interviewed Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, on key aspects of the government’s school reform plans. These are excerpts from the full interview. Can you give th...

A public-private partnership or a sell-off of old school buildings could be used to fund the Government’s plan to transform the public education system. A consultation on the future of primary schools, with a deadline of Friday, highlighted “bold ch...

It is a task said to be “monumental” by David Burt, the Premier, and Diallo Rabain, the education minister – the transformation of the public school system to give every Bermudian child a chance to excel. A consultation document released in ...

Almost 100 businesses have applied to be part of Government’s $13m economic stimulus programme aimed at small to medium-sized contractors. The deadline for submissions for the Short Term Stimulus Programme was February 15 and the responses to the Re...

Travel from Britain to Bermuda will be restricted to people with a valid reason while UK stay at home measures are in force, the Government’s London office said today. The UK office told Bermudians in Britain that people on their way home from next ...

Government’s lack of consultation with medical professionals and the “woeful inadequacy” of drug prevention programmes were just some of the reasons Opposition and Independent senators gave for rejecting Government’s bid to legalise cannabis yesterda...

One Bermuda Alliance senators will vote against legislation to licence cannabis production at today’s session of the Upper House, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Ben Smith, the Opposition senate leader, said the Government Bill did not set out what it...