The team from "down under'' was on top of the world last night after being crowned debating champions.
Australia beat England by six votes to one to be named the World Schools' Debating Champions, ending a week of cut and thrust between teams from ar...
are sure this morning that all Bermuda is proud of them. This debating competition is not a small regional affair but the World Debating Championship and young Bermudians were competing against young people who are all chosen from much larger countri...
If cricket, an innings triumph.
Put to a vote, this was a landslide.
The IAS Bermuda Professional Golf Association championship was over long before competitors took to the 6,512-yard Mid Ocean Club course for yesterday's fourth and final round.
Ther...
DATE: Feb 07, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
Make way Tiger, here comes Dwayne! Okay, so Bermuda's Dwayne Pearman may not be the same prodigy as Tiger Woods.
But as much as Woods has become a dominating force on the PGA tour, so has Pearman taken over local scene.
Yesterday only saw the Ocean ...
World Debating Championship -- for the second year in a row.
But officials insisted the five-strong Island team had done the Island proud, despite their ninth place finish.
And Bermuda Debating Society spokesman Roger Crombie said the Bermuda team wa...
top professional golfer.
Picking up where he left off last year, Pearman fired an opening-round 67 at the IAS Bermuda Professional Golf Association championship at Mid Ocean Club.
It was another five strokes back to Kim Swan, whose 72 left him four s...
invincible.
Held scoreless in the first half, the defending Commercial Division Group A champions found themselves in a spot soon after the break as Mariners had the audacity to take a 1-0 lead behind a Gil Rodrigues strike.
But, as is their custom, ...
Construction delays are not the only thing plaguing the opening of Whitney Institute's assembly hall.
The Royal Gazette has learned that flooding has already occurred at the long-awaited building, which is located at the bottom of a slope on the Midd...
But the most popular positions are often away from the board: Splayed fingers clasped against each temple, thumbs pressed into cheeks and ear sockets. Lips firmly sealed, of course.
Welcome to chess. Or should that be chesshhh...? Anyone entering Me...
The sixth annual Bank of Butterfield/Saltus tournament for senior boys features Whitney, Saltus, Berkeley and Mount Saint Agnes.
The teams meet in round-robin competition, with each game consisting of two eight-minute halves monitored by a running cl...
