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
Are you between the ages of 11 and 18? If so, submit your film. The overall theme is ‘Local action, global impact: A community project on the world’.
The Bermuda National Gallery is asking young film-makers to explore sustainable development by addr...
Danté Leverock has pledged his future to Harrisburg City Islanders after missing out on the United Soccer Leagues Eastern Conference play-offs in their final match of the season.
Leverock was ruled out because of suspension and had to watch from the ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Stephen Wright
Dear Sir,
I was prompted to write this letter after experiencing once again what has become a regular occurrence down on Middle Road in Devonshire when Somersfield Academy is in session.
I, along with many other road users, was subjected to a very ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A growing number of teenaged boys and young men appearing in court have a history of smoking marijuana, according to senior magistrate Juan Wolffe.
Mr Wolffe said that he and his magistrate colleagues could “draw the inference that there is a strong ...
