Bermuda High School students dominated this week as pupils from local schools and abroad honed their debate and public-speaking skills at the 2015 Bermuda Public Speaking and Debate Tournament.
Over the course of the tournament, a multi-day event th...
Ayesha Vickers, of Dalton E Tucker, and her team of creative writers met with Young Observer last week.
Mrs Vickers explained to us: “At Dalton E Tucker Primary Creative Writing Club (P4-P6), the goal of our writing club is to help break down the wal...
Eyewitnesses described several lucky escapes after a bus carrying nine nursery schoolchildren smashed into parked cars on East Broadway before ploughing into a utility pole.
Eight people were injured, including two visitors and a few children. None w...
DATE: Mar 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
In celebration of World Book Day, Saltus Lower Primary class 1T put on a wonderful assembly about Dr Seuss.
They dressed as the Cat in the Hat in colourful striped hats, told about the life of Dr Seuss, and sang “Happy Birthday, Dr Seuss”.
There was...
Under beautiful sunny skies Warwick Academy’s senior school held their sports day last Thursday.
Students were decked out in all their supporting house colours and the cheering of their team-mates was deafening at times.
The air was filled with the s...
School breaks were a problem for Kim Caisey.
Her children were 16, ten and four, and finding appropriate care was a nightmare.
The younger two had learning challenges; the teenager required a completely different environment.
Her frustrations led to ...
Bermuda has had four imported cases of the mosquito-borne disease Chikungunya that has spread throughout the Caribbean, MPs were told during the Budget debate on Monday.
As of January 21, the Department of Health had reported three cases, saying that...
DATE: Mar 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Rebecca Zuill
Dear Sir,
After high school it is in the interest of most teenagers to try to take advantage of mass opportunities by going to study abroad.
We spend the majority of our time earning degrees to qualify us in the line of work we are interested in.
C...
DATE: Mar 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
The Island’s waste recycling service will continue “as far as we know”, according to Waste Management’s education and enforcement officer, Vanese Gordon.
But recycling is doomed to remain a money-losing enterprise, especially for an Island jurisdicti...
DATE: Mar 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
This year’s Dementia Conference will put a new focus on raising awareness of the disease among Bermuda’s younger generation.
Expert dementia trainers will visit Gilbert Institute in Paget on Thursday to speak to pupils between the ages of seven and n...
