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A healthcare grant awards scheme has been set up in memory of a top eye surgeon who died last year, aged 64. The Bermuda International Institute of Ophthalmology created the scholarship in honour of the late Leonard Teye-Botchway. The BIIO fund was d...

A decision to end remote learning for public school pupils was made by the Government, not teachers, their union said yesterday. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that “no individual teacher or school made the decision to suspend re...

Teachers have been told to work with only what they are given by the Government in an escalation of a dispute over salary deductions for industrial action. The Bermuda Union of Teachers made the call in a letter to members sent at the weekend. The l...

Childcare services for essential workers are to be expanded. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said the service, launched last Wednesday, was expected to grow to meet demand. Mr Rabain added: “There is only one site operational at this point ...

Public schools will be reopened only when health officials give the go-ahead, the education ministry has said. A government spokeswoman added that clearance would have to be given by the health ministry. The spokeswoman said: “Please be assured that...

The head of the island’s teachers union has slammed a decision to dock the wages of teachers who took industrial action in February. Nishanthi Bailey, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that she had “no other option than to withdraw...

Part of a childcare programme for essential services workers will be up and running today, the Minister of Education pledged this week. Diallo Rabain said that the programme, designed for children aged 5 and 6, would be held at the Sammy Wilson Centr...

School staff were saluted for their hard work in the Covid-19 crisis by the education minister. Diallo Rabain said that a lot had been asked of public school principals, teachers and support workers in these “unprecedented times”. He told them in a ...

Almost three quarters of public primary schools ranked as poor or very poor in maths based on the average pupil score in a test sat last year, it has been revealed. Two schools, Heron Bay, in Southampton, and Paget Primary, had an average pupil scor...

The Government got its sums wrong when it provided figures on pupil test results in mathematics, science and English, an official has admitted. The Department of Education confirmed that the national average Cambridge Checkpoint assessment results f...