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Teachers have backed a vote of no confidence in the Commissioner of Education and the Ministry of Education’s top civil servant. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that members had “overwhelmingly” agreed on the action against Kalma...

Community workers want to know more about government funding of crime-fighting programmes, an activist said yesterday. Desmond Crockwell, chief editor of anti-violence magazine Visionz, said people involved in intervention programmes would like to kn...

A $300,000 grant to help poorer students study at Bermuda College will continue into the next fiscal year. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said the Paget college was “a key stakeholder in the economic growth and development of our island”...

Almost half-a-million dollars will go towards the introduction of a new pupil grading system, the finance minister announced yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said that $473,000 would be used “to continue the implementation of a standards-based grading sys...

The Bermuda Government is to suspend payments into the sinking fund, a home for money set aside to pay down long-term debt. In his maiden Budget Statement yesterday, Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said it did not make financial sense to b...

A primary school installed a plaque yesterday to remember an 11-year-old girl who was brutally murdered more than 40 years ago. Former pupils and present pupils of Paget Primary School handed over the handmade plaque in memory of Connie Furtado, who ...

A primary school was transformed into a museum yesterday to celebrate the achievements of black Bermudians. Classrooms at Paget Primary School were turned into exhibition areas as part of the second annual Black History Museum. The school chose 13...

A meeting between public school paraeducators and education therapist assistants, and the Bermuda Union of Teachers with the Public Service Negotiations Team, was postponed this morning. A spokeswoman for the Government said the Department of Educati...

The Progressive Labour Party faced discord among its own supporters over fears that Bermudian families are being left out in the cold, political sources claimed. David Burt, the Premier, and Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, were thought to ...

The owner of a daycare shuttered after a child was seriously injured was operating without a licence, a court heard yesterday. The Supreme Court heard in a civil case that Vernesha Symonds, the owner of Heavenly Blessings Nursery and Preschool, was ...