18166 results returned for search: "education AND " category "News"
An official suffered verbal abuse from some parents when children were being screened to attend schools, a testing coordinator told senior civil servants.
Tarik Bean-Darrell urged the Department of Education to address the problem when it emerged las...
DATE: Mar 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A multimillion-dollar fundraising drive has been launched to revive and renovate the National Museum of Bermuda.
It is hoped that The Future of History Campaign will attract at least $8.5 million to support education programmes, development projects ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Campaigners will raise awareness about coercive control in relationships at two panel talks within the next two weeks.
The Women’s Resource Centre has invited residents to a virtual discussion about relationships on Thursday and speakers from the UK ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
It will be legal to grow and sell cannabis – if controversial legislation passed in the House of Assembly yesterday gets Royal Assent from the Governor.
The Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 would create a regulated framework for growth and sale of the dru...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Mask-wearing and other mandates in schools will be optional under relaxed Covid-19 restrictions
DATE: Mar 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Clarien Bank is to discontinue its in-person teller services and is transitioning to digital, self-service based personal banking for all its customers.
Teller services at the bank’s 19 Reid Street branch will no longer be available effective the en...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermudians are to become eligible for student loans in England - even if they have never lived there.
The UK government announced that students from some British Overseas Territories – including Bermuda – will be eligible for tuition fee loans for un...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Strict Covid-19 restrictions on schoolchildren are having a negative economic impact on Bermuda as parents opt to leave the island for more lenient jurisdictions, a senator has said.
Ben Smith, the Opposition Senate Leader, said during the last Senat...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point.
Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Charity fundraisers who “braved the shave” in aid of childhood cancer research have so far raised more than $40,000.
Fundraising efforts for the annual St Baldrick’s Day event, where participants cut or completely shave their heads to raise cash, wer...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan