A young Bermudian businesswoman has been honoured by prestige business magazine Forbes; after launching a modern take on muesli in the UK.
Anna Mackenzie and her English business partner in food firm Cuckoo, Lucy Wright, were both picked for the Forb...
DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Last week Young Observer met with the Student Lighthouse Team at Francis Patton Primary.
The school has adopted and implemented the Leader In Me principles since 2011. These principles support the teaching of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Ef...
Student leaders at Francis Patton Primary School are preparing to visit two Lighthouse Schools in New Jersey. The students shared their hopes for the trip with us.
Kyzori Smith (Head Leader)
Age: 10
“I am preparing for the trip by brainstorming idea...
Bernie Sanders isn’t the first presidential candidate to oppose reparations for slavery. All the same, the Vermont senator running for the Democratic presidential nomination has been criticised for his position over the past few days. Ta-Nehisi Coate...
Michael Wynn grew up in poverty on Chicago’s South Side.
No one in his family had graduated from college and the odds were stacked against him doing so either: the dropout rate at his high school was nearly 90 per cent; only 15 of the 500 students w...
On January 12, the Year 10 GCSE PE class at BHS had the privilege of having two female sailors, Annie Lush and Sally Barkow come to talk to us about what they do and how they incorporate the things we are learning about in class to a real athlete’s l...
A new training initiative offering post secondary education for investment and financial services was formally launched this week at a ceremony at City Hall.
The RCA Bermuda Compliance Certification Programme (RBCC), the result of a partnership betwe...
DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Family Centre’s Homework Academy programme is aiming to attract volunteers to help students reach their academic goals.
The initiative, launched by the charity five years ago, offers extra assistance to Dellwood Middle School students and those in th...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The way children aged 16 and 17 are dealt with in Bermuda’s criminal courts is at odds with the United Nations’ child treaty, according to a new Supreme Court ruling.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said certain parts of the Youth Offender’s Act (YOA) 195...
For the past month I’ve been recounting the trials and tribulations in my project to massively reorganise my life. An exercise in humility, but my hope in airing my failings is to identify pitfalls so others might avoid them. Here are my biggest “lea...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Julia Pitt
