Proponents of out-of-hospital childbirth have won Immigration approval to bring their own midwives to the Island.
The Bermuda Integrated Health Cooperative received permission after the Bermuda Medical Council confirmed it didn’t need a full medical ...
DATE: Sep 05, 2012 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Many of the Island’s students return to school this week. We’d like to record the first day with a slide show of back-to-school pictures on our website, www.royalgazette.com.
Send us a picture, moms and dads. Whether it’s their first day or final yea...
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons is urging Government to ease school uniform requirements to help parents strapped for cash in the economic crisis.
Dr Gibbons suggested rules could be relaxed on a temporary basis, allowing regulation sweaters ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2012 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Mismatches in supply and demand for educated workers boost US unemployment and add as much as two percentage points to the jobless rates for some cities, according to the Brookings Institution.
Cities with larger gaps in educ...
One-woman publisher Katrina Ball has expanded Bermuda Parent magazine to include TV.
She has already produced two Bermuda Parent TV episodes appearing on her website and on Bermuda local sports and entertainment Channel 82.
“Our first two episodes ha...
One of Bermuda’s veteran teachers, Hilda Maude Harford, recently celebrated her 100th birthday.
Family and friends gathered at the Extended Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to celebrate the milestone on Saturday.
Former student Winifre...
Like its underwriting strategy, Bermuda-based Lancashire’s charitable giving is disciplined.
The company, which has a charitable budget of $1.25 million a year, doesn’t just write cheques to anyone who comes knocking at their door.
They find their ch...
Steps to Success: Back to School
It’s that wonderful time of year again, students of all ages heading back to school: the start of the academic year. I delight in this time, not only as a parent after a long summer holiday and because I have a pench...
August 30, 2012
Dear Sir,
The state of Illinois now has an education voucher programme. According to the Economist, a couple of years ago a public schoolgirl, whose parents could not afford private education, walked into a private school and told the...
DATE: Sep 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
St Paul AME Church will be hosting an exhibition of Bermudian Art from September 10 to September 22.
The event, “Mustard Seed at St. Paul”, was the brain child of church member, Virginia Wilson.
“It came about with me taking my 'Hands of Faith' minis...
