Shawn Ming never wanted to become a cook.
He rebelled against the prospect from an early age, despite urgings from his father Fred, a popular chef who taught culinary arts at the Bermuda College.
“I definitely did not want to take after my father,” t...
Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre is rallying the community to take part in Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout October.
In a series of events, people will be reminded about the importance of screening and early detection to help tackle the disea...
A physician is to launch what he believes is the first medical school scholarship in Bermuda.
JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund.
“I didn’t come...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Measures to tackle child sex abuse could be put forward this year by the parliamentary group investigating how Bermuda deals with sex offenders.
Mandatory education and awareness training, child protection policies and bolstered laws on the reporting...
A physician is to launch a medical school scholarship for Bermudian students.
JJ Soares, who runs Hamilton Medical Centre, told The Royal Gazette his own humble background inspired him to set up the $10,000-a-year fund.
“I didn’t come from a rich fam...
DATE: Sep 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or is close to attaining the very pinnacle of human p...
The Progressive Labour Party’s 2025 vision statement also endorsed the Bermuda College partnering with the Bermuda Government to promote local “application development”.
• A PLP government will work through the Bermuda College to develop, maintain an...
Carolyn Soares didn’t know how lucky she was until she went to South Africa.
She taught English to 10-year-olds without computers or sufficient textbooks in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa.
Huge numbers of children were jammed into tiny classrooms i...
Public schools will benefit from extra advantages if they opt to form parent councils but they will not lose existing rights, according to the acting commissioner of education Dr Freddie Evans.
Speaking to The Royal Gazette as the Department of Educ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Bright Beginnings nursery school has started afresh in new premises close to Hamilton.
The nursery, opened more than a decade ago at St Mark’s church in Smith’s, has found a new home in the former Government nursery attached to St John’s Church in Pe...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
