The budget for the Ministry of Education has been reduced by $2.23 million for the financial year ahead.
Projected spending on education for 2016 to 2017 is $124.9 million, less than the forecast for the previous year according to the 2016 budget del...
DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The baby boomers are getting ready to retire, and they won’t let a stock market sell-off stop them.
US stocks recently concluded the worst January since 2009 and have continued falling into February. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is now down 10 per...
Bertram Guishard, a prominent educator who was influential in the founding of the Bermuda College, has died at the age of 87.
Mr Guishard, a former dean of the college’s Faculty of Arts and Science, taught at every level of the island’s school system...
Bob Richards yesterday spelt out the danger to the country of failing to tackle the Government’s debt mountain, while announcing an annual budget that will add to it.
The finance minister said the debt burden “undermines our ability to support the ne...
Emotions have been running high since the announcement of the potential closure of four public primary schools and members of the public are being urged to let their voices be heard.
Parents, teachers and other stakeholders have been holding emergenc...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
One Bermuda Alliance backbencher Mark Pettingill says his party’s plan to outlaw same-sex marriage is “very disconcerting” and may breach international human rights law.
The MP and lawyer, who is representing a couple seeking to wed on the island, wa...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The size of classrooms and a lack of funding for public primary schools are among the Bermuda Government’s most serious concerns, according to the school reorganisation (Score) report.
The report, commissioned by Wayne Scott, the Minister for Educat...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Secondary students showcased their science skills yesterday at Saltus Grammar School’s inaugural science fair.
More than 20 individual and group projects were on display at the Alumni Hall, covering biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, robotics,...
"It is important to note that the redefinition of marriage results in reordering society, restructuring the family unit and radical cultural change. Redefining marriage leads to an avalanche of enormous cultural change that infiltrates various areas ...
The Bermuda National Trust looks forward to celebrating Earth Day on April 22 with a new collection of videos about Bermuda’s precious environment made by Bermuda’s students.
Inspired by the Bermuda National Trust challenge, students will have brain...
