This is Week 4 of the Bermuda 14-week plan to dramatically improve your finances.
Reader questions arise, such as where do you get the energy to continue to deliver the message that financial planning is beneficial to everyone, when it seems that Be...
The Bermuda Toastmasters Club is reaching out to young people through its new Gavel Club programme.
The group, which aims to help people improve their public-speaking skills through impromptu talks, is also moving into schools to help students develo...
DATE: Aug 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Growing up in the foster care system, Dwayne Wescome sometimes felt like he was unloved, unwanted and abandoned.
Then he developed a close relationship with God, which proved to him otherwise.
The 30-year-old recently graduated with a master of div...
Economist Craig Simmons believes that relying exclusively on foreign investment to boost Bermuda’s finances is a “grossly unbalanced” strategy and wants more encouragement to be given to smaller, local investors. In a detailed Q&A with The Royal Gaze...
The transfers of some 30 teachers and six principals are hanging in the balance less than two weeks before the start of the new school term as arguments rumble in the courts over whether parents were properly consulted about the moves.
The Bermuda Pa...
DATE: Aug 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
“Children must come first,” was the message from Minister of Education Wayne Scott yesterday as he welcomed a court decision allowing teachers and principals to go ahead with their transfers.
Mr Scott spoke to The Royal Gazette outside the Civil Cour...
DATE: Aug 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Seven Warwick Academy Year 10 students chose The Royal Gazette as their top place of employment. Sarah Taylor of Warwick Academy co-ordinated a two-day work experience programme together with Caroline Desmarais, chief development officer, to offer th...
The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association claims the Ministry of Education wants to “fatally wound” it with planned changes to the education system.
Harry Matthie, the association’s chairman, said the ministry intended to turn the BPTSA and othe...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
How we manage our personal finances is a key factor in the standard of living we enjoy.
It can influence the education we can give our children, the type of home in which we live and whether retirement is truly a period of “golden years” or a grim b...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
To build a Bermuda that works for Bermudians, we must face and deal with one simple fact: racial inequity is holding Bermuda back from reaching our full potential.
The systemic marginalisation of black Bermudians has significantly contributed to dis...