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A total of 14 students have won scholarships from the Department of Workforce Development. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education and Workforce Development, presented the awards at a recent ceremony. Mr Rabain told the winners: “Our ministry unders...

Education has leapfrogged employment to become the second most important issue facing Bermuda. Focus on education has now hit the highest level for the past decade. But both education and employment still lag behind worries over the economy, accordin...

Tenneil Ratteray and Azari Thomas are two of 14 student winners of Dr Barbara Ball Public Health scholarships. Tenneil, studying for a doctorate in physical therapy at Andrews University, Michigan, said: “I was very thankful because now I am able to...

Phyllis Curtis-Tweed, the former principal of the Berkeley Institute, has been announced as the new vice president of academic and student affairs at Bermuda College. Dr Curtis-Tweed, a Bermudian, graduated from Emory University with a PhD, and pursu...

Akinyi Apopa and Amber Reid are the winners of the Bermuda Zoological Society’s Steinhoff Scholarship for 2017. The students, who receive $5,000 each, were chosen for their outstanding scholastic achievement and community service, according to a pres...

Education minister Diallo Rabain has confirmed that the Ministry of Education authorised a public volunteer effort to ensure Bermuda’s public schools are ready for the new term in September. The first of the “work rallies” took place at Warwick Pres...

Community activist Gina Spence will launch her annual back-to-school campaign next week to provide needy families with uniforms and education supplies. Gina Spence Productions has again teamed up with Gibbons Company to urge residents to donate “gent...

A Bermuda lottery would be a tax on the poor, the executive director of the Casino Gaming Commission warned yesterday. Richard Schuetz said a lottery would not benefit the community. He added: “Lotteries have historically been called a tax on the po...

Former Berkeley Institute principal Michelle Simmons has been appointed an independent Senator. Ms Simmons joins Joan Dillas-Wright and James Jardine as the independents in the Upper House after Carol Bassett, President of the Senate since 2008 and a...

Four Saltus Grammar School students have won top awards from an examinations board in the United States. Alexandra Barnes, Christian Oatley, Casey Schuler and Megan Zimmerer were all awarded National AP Scholar and AP Scholar with Distinction. The aw...