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Air samples from an area of an East End school, where floor tiles suspected to be contaminated with asbestos were removed, were yesterday sent to an overseas lab for analysis, an education ministry spokeswoman has revealed. The spokeswoman said the ...

The Bank of Bermuda Foundation has handed out more than $950,000 in scholarships to 20 students. The foundation said it selected the winners based on financial need, academic achievement, diversity and equity. Tom Conyers, the chairman of the Foundat...

Boys learnt how to apply maths in a real-life setting as they built benches for their schools during a summer camp. Children aged 9 and 10 were involved in the programme to build “buddy benches” for their schools, organised by the Bermuda Education N...

An East End school has been given the green light for classes to go ahead after concerns about suspected asbestos, the Minister of Education said. Diallo Rabain apologised to parents of students at Clearwater Middle School for not alerting them to th...

An autism spectrum disorder programme for preschool children will welcome its first pupils next month. The new programme at Prospect Preschool in Devonshire will open on September 10 — the first day of the new school term. Sherri Bucci, the assis...

Three students beat an outstanding field to net scholarships from a parish council. Katiya Gilbert, Veronica Swan-DeGraff and Gabrielle DeShields got their awards from Southampton Parish Council. Sakina Darrell, the council’s scholarship committee ch...

A seven-strong group of schoolchildren have attended an international leadership programme at a school in Atlanta. The pupils, from the 2018 Future Leaders programme, spent three weeks at the Global Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship event at Bra...

Students studying subjects ranging from medicine to law and criminology have won $25,000 scholarships. Zoe Exon, Sydney Rego, Casey Schuler, Chrysda Smith and Shayla Smith won Nicholl Scholarships, named after Albert Nicholl, a philanthropist who lef...

Teachers have “grave concerns” about pupils and staff at an East End school contaminated by asbestos, the head of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the BUT, said that the union demanded the highest standar...

The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl due to start at an East End school next month said she was concerned about asbestos in the building. Mary Faries heard a radio report last week about the presence of the cancer-causing material at Clearwater Mi...