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Members of the island’s teachers union have breached their collective bargaining agreement five times this school year, the education commissioner claimed today. Kalmar Richards said the Bermuda Union of Teachers “must place children first when takin...

School projects ranging from pop art-inspired recycled sneakers to soul food were showcased at Somersfield Academy yesterday. The projects were among the work displayed by M5 pupils as part of their International Baccalaureate middle-year programme, ...

A student taken under the wing of the island’s most famous conservationist has followed in his footsteps by studying for a doctorate in the study of birds. Miguel Mejías, 32, said that he expected to finish his PhD in ornithology at a university in C...

Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday. Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...

David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities. More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...

Parents at Dellwood Middle School have raised “grave fears” about staff and scheduling problems and the impact on pupils. However, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education said the school had “surplus staff”. The school’s PTA executive said th...

Bermuda’s teaching union has slammed the Department of Education for its handling of the concerns of its members. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said that two meetings set to take place yesterday were postponed at the last minute. It added in a stat...

Bermuda’s public education system has failed for decades to equip schoolchildren with the skills to qualify them for top jobs, economists have claimed. Peter Everson and Robert Stewart said the problem went back through at least six governments. Mr E...

David Burt, as Leader of the Opposition in 2016, referred to Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to present a parallel to his “A Tale of Two Bermudas” in his Reply to the Throne Speech. He said: “While one Bermuda enjoys wealth, privilege and secu...

Dellwood Middle School pupils are expected back at their desks this morning after teachers took industrial action yesterday, when two long-term substitute teachers had their positions discontinued more than a month early. Parents were summoned to Del...