June 28, 2011
Dear Sir,
We would like to thank my teacher Mrs Carol-Ann Jackson (Coach Wade) of BASIC Learning Centre. She believed in us when everyone even family, teachers and society gave up on us. She opened her doors to us in January, 2011, and...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Street charity Youth on the Move wants to help deliver a training programme aimed at getting vulnerable young people into jobs.
The group, which assisted Columbia University’s recent study into young black males, says it has the experience and knowle...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Don't let your circumstances be an excuse to your future success or you'll end up with a “just enough” life.
This was the hard-hitting message from former CedarBridge Academy student Jamari Douglas, who battled against the odds to land his dream job ...
Many black Bermudian males don't go to college because they are taught so little about how to apply, according to researchers.
Columbia University's interviews with students showed the need for more resources to be poured into career and college guid...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Dr Monique Keyser has not told Bermuda anything it does not know, even if it does not want to admit it, about the small army of “wall sitters” and gang members who are steadily destroying themselves and the social fabric of the Island.
But it is imm...
Schools need to urgently step up their counselling services so that troubled children have someone to turn to.
This is the view of community leaders who fear children could be bottling up their emotions because there is not enough support available.
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There’s no better time than summer to look up and wonder at the beauty of the night sky. That Bermuda is blessed with warm nights and limited light pollution is an added benefit for local stargazers.
This summer’s Newspaper in Education reading prog...
Eleven Bermudian teenagers had close encounters with Mother Nature in the week before school broke for the summer holidays.
The teenagers were participating in the annual Nonsuch Island Camp run by Bermuda Zoological Society and Bermuda Audubon Socie...
It’s vital that young black men are given work opportunities to “turn their hopelessness into desire”, according to the United Bermuda Party.
In what could be the political party’s last statement, UBP MPs Kim Swan and Charlie Swan say they want black...
Adult graduate Nadine Nembhard dropped out of school at 16 when she fell pregnant, but having had another “taste of education” she’s now hungry for more.
An excited Ms Nembhard was among the 44 men and women who donned their caps and gowns for the A...
