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was unequivocal on the subject of mega-schools this week: they simply don't work. "I am against big schools and I don't think Bermuda should have gone that way,'' Mrs. Christine Gorham Cox, a former student at the Bermuda High School for Girls who wa...

Government backbencher Mr. Trevor Moniz MP said yesterday he will seek a waiver to allow Cabinet Ministers to speak freely about a Cabinet meeting held on the day the Independence Referendum was postponed. Mr. Moniz's move comes after several witness...

in community standards of discipline,'' Governor Lord Waddington said in yesterday's Speech from the Throne. The speech -- which sets out Government's legislative programme and is read by the Governor when Parliament convenes for a new session -- set...

Despite a warning from Premier David Saul yesterday that Cabinet members do not have carte blanche to speak freely, the veil of secrecy surrounding an August 15 Cabinet meeting could be lifted on Monday when Dr. Clarence Terceira MP takes the stand a...

caucus choice for Deputy Speaker was defeated in a secret ballot vote. St. George's South MP Mrs. Grace Bell lost her bid to become Deputy Speaker when backbenchers who supported Mr. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge for the United Bermuda Party leadership threw ...

A select committee should be named to look into needed changes to Bermuda's Constitution, Opposition Leader Frederick Wade said yesterday. The committee should look into constitutional issues that arose during the run-up to the recent Independence re...

Mr. President. Honourable Members of the Senate. Mr. Speaker. Honourable Members of the House of Assembly. The third Parliamentary Session of this Government begins a new and challenging chapter of Bermuda's history. Since we last assembled in this C...

Government is backing away from its plans to set up an alternate school for troubled students. The Royal Gazette understands education officials are considering using special classrooms in schools for unruly students instead of putting them in a sepa...

Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly today, The Royal Gazette has learned. The former Education Minister said last night that a number of his "political friends'' had asked his permission to put his name forward for the post. "I gave it a lot of t...

claimed yesterday. And he outlined a picture of an educational system in crisis while the Government turns a blind eye. The male teacher -- who asked not to be identified -- said two teachers at Warwick Secondary had recently resigned because they co...