The Sunshine League is to stop offering residential foster care for children next month.
The “excessively high costs” of the programme were cited as the reason for the change in a press release issued by the charity this afternoon.
Five full-time sta...
While most 11-year-old boys are playing football or video games, a special group of Dellwood Middle School students are mastering the art of mathematics.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity started an impressive programme last October teaching M1 students ho...
When father-of-two Lawrence Fox first heard he was going to be a father he felt absolute elation.
“I was overwhelmed with joy, and thanked God for the opportunity to shape the mind of one of the greatest gifts a parent could ever receive,” he said. “...
Government is exploring the idea of bringing a US training and vocational programme for young people to Bermuda.
Premier Paula Cox met a contractor from the Job Corps initiative in Bermuda four weeks ago.
She had a follow-up meeting this week with th...
June 12, 2011
Dear Sir,
On Thursday June 9, 2011, I had the unfortunate displeasure of viewing the portion of the ZBM news where Senator LaVerne Furbert expressed her opinion on the song “Proud to be Bermudian”. Her statements included that the song...
DATE: Jun 17, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
The Catlin End-to-End celebrated breaking the $4 million mark in its 24 years of fundraising, as it handed out more than $250,000 to Bermuda charities today.
Bermuda’s tough economic times were a recurring theme in the remarks of thanks from the 11 l...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
June 8, 2011
Dear Sir,
I can't help but notice that the issue of Independence is being dusted off again by various politicians and others. Of course, if we had put the issue to a Referendum (like a majority of the public was calling for) the last tim...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
For months now, the call has gone out for Government to cut spending and to reduce the size of the Civil Service.
So when 93 jobs were cut in education last month, this should have come as no surprise.
These are not easy decisions, and Dame Jennife...
On May 19th the Bermuda Institute held their annual Alumni Weekend. The weekend’s events were held at the Bermuda Institute campus. The purpose of the special weekend was to honour all the alumni that had attended Bermuda Institute.
The weekend star...
Meetings usually take a lot to organise the bigger the meeting, the bigger the effort.
Imagine, then, a meeting of 2,000 high school students, many of them flying-or driving- in to New York from places often hundreds of miles away.
It requires nothin...
