1230 results returned for search: "education AND " author Sarah Lagan
Two primary schools in the East End have recorded the island’s best average grades throughout the past four years, according to results from the Cambridge International Examinations.
St George’s Preparatory was the only school to average in the “very...
DATE: Apr 20, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families is hosting its Annual General Membership meeting next week.
Minister of Community, Culture, and Sport Patricia Gordon Pamplin is expected to make a representation along with two of Bermuda’s young...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The group advocating against same-sex unions, Preserve Marriage Bermuda, has been granted charitable status by the Registrar General having passed “the public benefit test”.
The confirmation letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs, seen by this ne...
DATE: Apr 09, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Shadow Education minister Lovitta Foggo has said the Devonshire community should be “extremely concerned” about an inspection at Elliot Primary School that identified that the fire alarm system is inoperable.
Furthermore, Ms Foggo said there had been...
DATE: Apr 01, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Student attendance was adversely affected across Bermuda’s schools owing to island-wide work stoppages yesterday despite all schools remaining open.
Yesterday marked the second day of stoppages by Civil Service workers in protest against the Bermuda...
DATE: Mar 15, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Budget
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Parents were unsure whether to send their children to school yesterday morning as the scope of last-minute industrial action remained unclear.
Ferries, buses, trash collection and the docks were mainly out of service as a result of the island-wide w...
DATE: Mar 12, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An American spoken word poet who has been taking HBO’s Def Poetry by storm is making a return to the island this weekend to perform as a guest of the Bermuda College Literary Society.
Gemineye, real name Chris Kuretich, is well known for poems such ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Lanir Smith could barely walk when he joined Heron Bay Primary School. Now aged 7, he can complete three races in a day
It didn’t take long after joining Heron Bay Primary School for Lanir Smith to make progress in the face of a debilitating conditi...
DATE: Mar 04, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Education
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Young students from Gilbert Institute have presented letters to education minister Wayne Scott asking him not to close their school.
Gilbert Institute, the island’s only primary level school for the deaf and hard of hearing, is one of four schools f...
DATE: Mar 04, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Government has announced that it is to call a referendum on same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Michael Dunkley, the Premier, called a press conference this morning, accompanied by Patricia Gordon Pamplin, Minister for Community, Culture ...
DATE: Mar 01, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
