Jobs at The Salvation Army could be under threat due to a shortfall in funding, Bermuda’s divisional commander Major Frank Pittman has revealed to The Royal Gazette .
The charitable religious organisation received $411,089 from 697 donors last year,...
West Pembroke Primary Eco-Club met on Monday at lunchtime. Present at the meeting was Abbie Caldas, Greenrock’s schools programme manager, and Sylvia Hayward, community member assessor for Greenrock.
About 20 students and their Eco-Club co-ordinato...
Bermuda has a distinct advantage over other nations when studying ocean pollution, according to researchers.
More and more debris from North and South America, the Caribbean and even Africa, is washing up on the island’s shores, Anne Hyde, executive ...
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
