Derrick Gardner got hooked on music as a child. It worked out well for him. Since 1991 he has travelled the world playing trumpet with the Count Basie Orchestra. That same year he formed his own sextet, Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets.
Tony Benn...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
Parents, teachers and students filled the auditorium at Somersfield Academy to view the Middle Years Programme (MYP) participants’ International Baccalaureate projects.
From Cani Swan’s hovercraft to a Donovan Stubbs bodybuilding programme, the 18 st...
Government MP Leah Scott has denied plagiarising an article on a US news and media website for a letter to the editor that was published in The Royal Gazette last week.
Ms Scott came under fire after it became apparent that sections of the letter bo...
Mount Saint Agnes Academy announces its decision to implement the Reggio Emilia-inspired early learning programme for four-year-olds in September 2015.
Speaking of the announcement, Sue Moench, the MSA principal, said: “It has been a vision of ours f...
A budget is a curious thing, nowhere near as simple as it looks. It is not realised monies — as in cash received in hand, cash spent out — gone! A budget places its emphasis on what we think we will see financially going forward. A budget can be (and...
Reverend Vernon Lowe stepped down from the pulpit ten years ago.
Tomorrow morning, the 88-year-old is returning to his much-beloved post.
Rev Dr Lowe will be the special guest preacher at Vernon Temple AME’s service. He’s hoping his message will in...
Finance Minister Bob Richards spent almost two hours presenting the 2015-16 Budget yesterday. His Budget increased Government revenues derived from taxes ($55.4 million, or 6.3 per cent compared with the revised estimate for 2014-15) and reduced spen...
DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Howes
Taxes are to go up and spending is to be cut by $33.1 million — and Finance Minister Bob Richards warned that public sector layoffs could come this year.
The grim news came in the annual Budget statement, which imposed 3.5 per cent cuts across the bo...
DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Two professional jazz musicians will tomorrow be performing alongside local artists and students at Warwick Academy’s annual Jazz Gala Evening.
Jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardener and saxophonist Albert Rivera will be performing with the Warwick Academ...
Literacy should be a priority for spending in education in today’s Budget, according to the Bermuda Education Network.
Executive director Becky Ausenda claims that nearly all the education experts within the network, including education officers, pri...
DATE: Feb 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
