18669 results returned for search: "education AND " category "News"
A 20-year-old would-be lawyer was given a 12-month conditional discharge after she assaulted and obstructed police officers.
Imani Byron, 20, pleaded guilty to assault on one officer and obstruction of another.
Magistrates’ Court heard that the incid...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
Bermuda is to start Global Entrepreneurship Week early.
GEW will held worldwide between November 12 and 16, but Global Entrepreneurship Week Bermuda has teamed up with the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, Government’s ICT policy department a...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda missed the chance to head off an obesity and diabetes epidemic decades ago, a former government head of physical education has claimed.
John Moreby, who worked with the Department of Education for more than 20 years before he retired in 1995,...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A charity set up to care for ex-servicemen is to publicise the island’s role in the First World War with a special poster and booklet to mark the centenary of the Armistice.
The Bermuda Legion has produced a poster with details of every Bermudian who...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The transformation of Bermuda into an “innovation island” could boost the economy, a report commissioned by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has predicted.
Kendaree Burgess, executive director of the chamber, said “we are in the right space to take ou...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Plumbing problems have forced the closure of a preschool tomorrow.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said that Devonshire’s Prospect Preschool was forced to close today because of a water shortage.
She said: “Following an assessment thi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The executive director of an environmental charity is understood to have been made redundant.
Jonathan Starling, one of Greenrock’s two full-time staff, is believed to have parted company with the charity.
The move is thought to have been made on cos...
DATE: Oct 27, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A former Miss Teen Bermuda who became an international award-winning midwife has spearheaded an attempt to make sure women in war-torn Syria get proper maternity care.
Pandora Hardtman set up a programme to promote safe births in the devastated Middl...
DATE: Oct 26, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Men in sport will play a significant role in steering youngsters away from violence, a government minister said yesterday.
Michael Weeks, the social development and sport minister, said: “Sports clubs and sports teams provide youth with positive role...
DATE: Oct 25, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A total of 25 new landscapers marked the successful completion of the first level of their national certification at an awards ceremony today,
Students on the parks department horticultural training programme joined instructors and MPs at Bermuda Col...
DATE: Oct 25, 2018
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|