Why is it so very important to give beginning readers a book introduction before reading? The answer lies in what we think reading is for the reader at the very early stages of learning how to read.
There is much to learn about reading that transcend...
DATE: May 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Darnell Wynn
Devonshire Parish Council is hoping to give one deserving student a hand up to continue their undergraduate studies.
It is offering a scholarship with a maximum value of $5,000 to an undergraduate student who has been accepted into an approved univer...
LeChé Simmons is used to being in front of a camera. She started modelling at age three when she appeared in a newspaper advertisement for Gibbons Company.
Now 19, Miss Simmons is gearing up to take the stage in the Miss Sunderland beauty pageant in...
Steps to Success:
Success’ Believe it or Not.
Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.”
Last week, we examined beliefs the subconscious rules by which we operate, formed rather haphazardly in our childhoods an...
DATE: May 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Julia Pitt
I cannot count the times I have been stopped and asked about Dr Michelle Alexander's presentation at the CURB Racial Justice Conference at the end of March. By word of mouth her powerful message has reached far more people than attended the conferenc...
The Royal Gazette today launches its most ambitious fundraiser ever: a $1 million campaign in aid of Bermuda's at-risk youth
This newspaper has teamed with the New Beginnings Education Trust, run by Kerry Judd, to raise a million dollars over the nex...
DATE: Apr 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The New Beginnings $1 Million Campaign is aimed at raising the much-needed dollars to finance education grants for Bermuda’s ‘at risk’ youth and bringing back the Mirrors Community Programme for 19 to 24-year-old young men.
If raised, it may also ass...
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has clarified her Ministry’s stance on the Bermuda Educators’ Council in a statement to the House of Assembly on Friday.
Responding to reports that BEC members had resigned en masse, Dame Jennifer said the BEC w...
The recent report on drug use among school students gave some reason for cheer, since the survey showed that its prevalence is lower than it was the last time a survey was done in 2007.
But the fact that more than half the students have drunk alcoho...
It was supposed to be a quiet Sunday afternoon for lawyer Michael Spurling on April 3, 2004.
Instead he could hear uproar and blaring police sirens as violent clashes broke out at a football match at the Wellington Oval, 500 metres from his mother’s ...
