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Jasmeen Codrington-Edmead was doing well in English. That did not stop her mother, Zarinah, from signing the 13-year-old up for tutoring. Substitute teacher Tamika Todd set up Arete Academy to help students like Jasmeen fulfil their potential. The p...

What better way to celebrate turning 50 than throwing a party. But after 30 years in entertainment, Bootsie felt it called for more. “We contacted some of the top artists in the industry and we’re gonna do the big 5-0 on stage,” said the comedian. Ro...

• Be organised: stay on top of deadlines, gather all pertinent documents and make copies of everything you submit. • Be honest: focus on the scholarships for which you are truly eligible and don’t reach. • Follow instructions carefully: send in ever...

The Berkeley Institute Dance Programme will hold its 6th Annual Dance Concert “New Era” on Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 7pm in The Berkeley Institute cafetorium. Tickets are on sale in the school office; general tickets are...

During the Bermuda Festival, our music teacher Dr Derek Tully took us to City Hall to see a quartet called Fandango. The word means a lively Spanish dance and is a fun name for a group. We had to be there by 11am so we had our recess first in the mus...

Along with the birth of the digital information age in the 90s, the importance of teaching the critical thinking mindset to our students has become a great need in education. As we woke up in the 90s the internet was waiting for us and a generation n...

Saltus Year 5 teacher, Ms Jill Roberts, trained S5 and S6 students to be Peer Mediators. According to Ms Roberts: “Peer Mediation is designed to allow trained students to help other students find positive ways to solve disagreements. One of the goal...

When Andrew Trott-Francis’s grandfather developed cancer, his first thought was “not again”. His grandmother had died from pancreatic cancer six years before. Doctors suggested Dale Gibbons use a trial drug to fight the cancer they’d found in his liv...

A celebration-of-life service for Richard Melvin Weller took place this week. He died on January 25. Family and friends gathered at Grace Communion International Church on Watlington Road in Devonshire on Tuesday. Richard, or perhaps I should say Ric...

Richard Caisey is a self-confessed sports nut. Football, cricket, softball — you name it, he’s played it. It all came to a standstill when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 at age 23. “One day I was playing cricket in the Evening League and I was...