Sexual Assault has increased alarmingly in Bermuda, according to the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC), but figures from the Bermuda Police Service suggest the opposite.
The Quarterly Crime Statistics released yesterday by the Bermuda Police Service (BPS...
DATE: Feb 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance are doom and gloom merchants who only criticise, according to Environment Minister Marc Bean.
Mr Bean was taking issue with Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell’s “gloss” and “spin” accusation over the 2011 arri...
New Progressive Labour Party candidate, Cabinet press officer Scott Simmons, is to run in the three-way showdown for Constituency 31, Southampton West Central.
It will be a race between the United Bermuda Party’s incumbent Charlie Swan, the One Berm...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
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 |
