The election last Thursday marked the day when the petals firmly came off the fading red rose that is the One Bermuda Alliance government.
This loss by its candidate, Andrew Simons, to now MP and former senator Diallo Rabain was by any measure extrao...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Rolfe Commissiong
John Grisham’s character, Troy Phelan, in The Testament has a dramatic approach to estate planning. Mr Phelan, an elderly businessman with an estate worth billions had three failed marriages together producing eight children. Most of the children r...
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb
An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...
Lingerie stores and barbershops are giving out male and female condoms ahead of Valentine’s Day this week.
The initiative was organised by the Department of Health to mark Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Day on Friday.
“It’s an annual even...
Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...
Staff and PTA executives at Gilbert Institute are holding an emergency meeting to come up with an action plan they hope will save the school from closure.
The Paget school is the island’s only one that provides services for the deaf and hard-of-hear...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
One of the island’s longest-established sports shop businesses has relocated from Washington Mall to a street corner only a few doors away from where it started out in 1966.
Four years after it moved to a unit in the new wing of Washington Mall, Inte...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Dani Buglione had good grades in school but struggled to express herself outside of class. Then she discovered acting.
“It was like this whole different world opened up to me,” the 14-year-old Saltus Grammar School student said. “One of my first part...
The charity Tomorrow’s Voices is hosting a workshop next week as it raises awareness of autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.
The event, “Skill generalisation — what does that really mean?”, will provide strategies and tactics to ...
Three meetings will be held by Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, on the issue of school reorganisation, the Ministry announced this afternoon.
“All stakeholders, including parents, educators and community members are invited to attend to learn ...
