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A doctor and teacher who was the first black medical director at the island’s hospital has died. Ronald Lightbourne was 84. The father of three, who finished medical school at Loma Linda University in California in 1964, worked at Watts Health Centre...

Schoolchildren were yesterday praised for their part in a government work experience programme which was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. The closing ceremony could not be held for the professional-student relationship programme, but everyone who ...

A Bermudian student has become the first to receive a full scholarship pledged by two businessmen looking to invest in the island’s young talent. Katherine Grainge is attending the University of St Andrews in Scotland thanks to the donation from Chri...

A former school once earmarked for emergency housing has been ruled “surplus to Government requirement”. Now the Ministry of Public Works has asked for expressions of interest to renovate the former Bishop Spencer School in Pembroke. A spokesman sai...

Two young Bermudians studying journalism abroad have been picked by the English-speaking Union for the organisation’s higher education grants for this year. The two recipients are Samantha Soares and Alisa Bernardo. Each will get a boost of $3,500 to...

A total of nine people have graduated from a programme designed to prepare participants for a career in the marine industry. The seven-week Endeavour Maritime Career Springboard Programme provides skills development, job readiness, and vocational tr...

A bid to expand prison libraries has been launched. Renee Ming, the national security minister, said the prison system contained a lot of keen readers who would benefit from donations of new books. Ms Ming said: “The Department of Corrections has qui...

Reality TV star and socialite Paris Hilton joined a protest held in a bid to shut down a controversial American boarding school for troubled children used by the Bermuda Government. Ms Hilton, who spent almost a year at Provo Canyon School in Utah wh...

A specialist school has been transformed into a “mathematical planetarium” to encourage pupils to reach for the stars. The walls at Planet Math’s buildings in Hamilton and St George are now covered in artwork, including images of galaxies and planets...

Warwick Academy is celebrating its most successful university and college acceptance rate in recent history with 98 per cent of graduates achieving their first option, the school said. A total of 54 of the 55 graduates secured their top choice afte...