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A private school is to adopt the SafeKey system for staff and visitors after a jump in Covid-19 cases, the head teacher said yesterday. Deryn Lavell, head of school at Saltus Grammar School, said in a letter to parents that the step was taken to ensu...

A motorcyclist suffered “very serious injuries” yesterday afternoon after a bike was in collision with a bus. A police spokeswoman said the incident happened about 4.25pm. She added: “Initial information suggests the vehicles were travelling in oppos...

Hurricane Larry brought Bermuda grey skies and strong winds but left the island mostly untouched as it grazed the island yesterday. The storm weakened to a Category 1 hurricane before it passed about 170 miles to the island’s east at 3pm. Larry boast...

Construction has started in the East End that will bring a businessman’s restaurant empire to St George’s. Marico Thomas, who took up part-ownership of the old George & Dragon pub in February, confirmed yesterday that he had started renovations on th...

Almost half the people who took part in a consultation survey disagree with the plan to introduce parish primary schools. A tally of the entries in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report revealed that out of a total of 108 parents,...

Lack of detail about how the Government plans to fund and implement parish primary schools in Bermuda was a common theme raised during public consultation. The Government released three reports on the consultation including the the Parish Primary Sch...

The views of about 1,000 members of the community were released by the government in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report. Comments were made in favour of and against the government’s Parish Primary School Plan. The vast majorit...

Members of the community hoping to save their schools put forward several alternatives to closure during the consultation on parish primary schools. Elliot Primary School in Devonshire was the only school originally slated for closure under the Paris...

“Grave concerns” were raised about students with special needs being separated from mainstream pupils, the consultation report has revealed. Anonymous submissions were recently made public in the Parish Primary School Decisions report. “There is grav...

The Government has prioritised public service, community and commercial use for the buildings that will be left after eight public primary schools close. Alternative future uses for the sites were detailed in the Parish Primary School Decisions repo...