“This camp is amazing,” declared ten-year-old Zaire Burrows of the Futuristic Camp based in Crawl, Hamilton Parish. “It’s people my age. We have fun. The teachers are funny. It’s not one of those camps where you sit down and do work and play games al...
Bermuda High School and Warwick Academy both boasted rising pass rates on the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme.
BHS saw their pass rates rise from 76 percent to 82 percent this year, while pass rates for Warwick Academy rose from 72 perc...
Two teams of four Bermudian university students will be learning in depth about the insurance business in two different US cities, Chicago and Atlanta. BFIS has been sending students to Chicago since 2006 but the Atlanta programme is brand-new this y...
After a month of flockings, the Bermuda Zoological Society’s pink plastic flamingos are returning to their storage roost until next year.
The fundraiser brought in almost $10,000 through more than 80 flockings across the Island throughout June.
Gover...
Local student Sarah Hopkin has become the Island’s first in 20 years to be awarded a Jardine Foundation scholarship — worth about $200,000.
This means the 18-year-old Bermuda High School graduate, as one of a dozen picked from hundreds, will head off...
DATE: Jul 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A new scholarship for TN Tatem students aims to encourage them to keep on studying long after they leave the middle school.
Five high-achieving pupils have picked up awards totalling $10,000 this year, but they won’t be able to access the funds until...
DATE: Jul 09, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A school that offers courses in marine technology and boat construction will now offer a full scholarship to Bermudian students.
The Landing School, in Arundel, Maine, will award the scholarship to qualified students seeking to complete one of The La...
An 80-year-old choir singer from Florida — in Bermuda to perform at Seventh-day Adventist Churches — was killed when he crashed his rental motorcycle on Saturday.
Don Wildman died after his scooter collided with a wooden barrier as he travelled west ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
It was a huge gamble when married couple Kevin Lombard and Judith Paixao left lucrative careers in the US to venture to the Island.
But both say packing up and moving here to explore their passion for the arts was worth the risk.
Mr Lombard is an E...
Bermuda’s banks have joined together in the fight against online fraud after an increasing number of e-mail scams on the Island.
Criminals use phishing scams, or phoney e-mails, to try and get customers’ personal and banking information, and they’re...
