A 90 percent graduation rate is evidence that Bermuda’s public education system is successful, according to ruling party MP Lovitta Foggo.
“I am proud to have taught in our system and can speak volumes on the successes that I have observed.
“I belie...
Nurses at King Edward VII Memorial are offering free health screenings tomorrow in honour of Healthy Heart Month.
The screenings will be in the hospital lobby between 11am and 2pm and will include tests for blood pressure, blood sugar, weight circumf...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has released a series of teacher and student numbers for the Island’s public schools.
Dame Jennifer gave the number of teachers employed during the 2011-12 school year as: 53 for preschools; 303 for primary scho...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Two of Bermuda’s broadcast stars will be incarcerated at a jail cell in Fort Hamilton today as a forerunner to this year’s Celebrity Lock-Up fundraiser.
Patrina O’Connor, better known as Power Girl from Power 95, and Mr Magic from Irie FM98.3 will fi...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
“Stringent requirements” govern the use of unlicensed teachers in Bermuda’s classrooms, according to educators who oversee the procedure.
Helle Patterson of Bermuda Educators Council spoke out after the Ministry of Education reported 22 exemptions ha...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Ebony Patterson Exhibition
The Ebony Patterson exhibition at Bermuda National Gallery is a wild show that exudes youthfulness.
The first time I entered the exhibition, I was overwhelmed by what, to my thinking, was the excessiveness of the installa...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
February 17, 2012
Dear Sir,
By the time I had finished reading the letter from Sheelagh Cooper in today’s Royal Gazette, referring to Noet Barnett’s sentence, I was reduced to tears. What a wonderful, compassionate letter explaining to the Judge, th...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A half-hour into her new fitness programme, Sylvia Hayward-Harris was questioning her sanity.
She and her friend Sita Stirling had seen Cambridge Beaches' advertisements depicting happy people working out on beautiful beaches they thought it was a gr...
Progressive Labour Party backbencher Terry Lister told MPs he didn’t support the parliamentary committee system because the Opposition used it to take “cheap shots” at Government.
Mr Lister told the House of Assembly that when the joint select commit...
DATE: Feb 20, 2012 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Education reform was already “dead on arrival” by the time a bipartisan parliamentary committee began reviewing progress, Opposition MP Grant Gibbons claimed yesterday.
The Shadow Education Minister told the House of Assembly that the joint select co...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
