Reforming the education system begins with focusing on the quality of teachers, according to the new Minister of Education, Dr Grant Gibbons.
But Mike Charles, secretary general for the Bermuda Union of Teachers, will not be holding his breath.
In hi...
Alisha Gabriel is used to working in a state-of-the-art hospital, but this March she will be trading in all her modern tools, and comforts, to spend a week helping children in disadvantaged parts of Honduras.
The Bermudian medical student will be pa...
“Education is important enough to have two people focusing on it,” according to the new Minister and Junior Minister of Education.
Speaking exclusively with The Royal Gazette since the Cabinet shuffle last year, Dr Grant Gibbons, Minister of Educatio...
Dear Sir,
This is an open letter to Dr Eva Hodgson.
Okay, Dr Hodgson, why don’t you, once and for all, tell us what you really think? I don’t need to rewrite all the repetitive opinions you have expressed for almost as long as I can remember. But, in...
DATE: Jan 06, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Most children of today won’t remember black and white television, or the countless black and white photographs in the homes of thousands of once young Bermudians who passed through the Jackson School of Performing Arts.
Long before cultural arts were...
Promising basketball player Raushon Tankard is hopeful of fulfilling his potential when he embarks on an unexpected journey today to Montreal.
The 16-year-old caught the eye of the coaching staff of Stanstead College at the Thanksgiving Classic that...
This column is for all those readers who think I am too darn serious, too darn often. I know, I know, I can be: just not this week, for a change.
Instead I give you my idea of a fun way to see off the old year and to usher in the new, as well as a ch...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: John Barritt
Judith Landsberg, who is stepping down as president of Greenrock, the environmental charity. will continue her commitment to green issues on the other side of the world.
The environmentalist. who is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in environment...
DATE: Jan 03, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
We talk about leaving a better planet for our kids, what about leaving better kids for our planet?
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2014 will see Greenrock offer an expanded and deepened environmental education programme in Bermuda’s schools. In October, 2013, Greenrock became ...
KeyTech and its employees raised more than $4,500 for two charities in the run-up to Christmas.
The company’s Social Committee donated $1,000 to the Salvation Army’s Secret Santa and $3,520 to Action on Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
Some of the funds were...
