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
Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell claimed last night that his counterpart in Government put a “gloss” and a “spin” this week on the 2011 visitor arrival figures.
Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert reported on Monday that Bermuda recorded the second...
DATE: Feb 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Tourism | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief yesterday defended Government’s handling of a controversial land policy in Parliament yesterday.
Mr Perinchief faced robust questioning from Opposition figures shortly after announcing the key changes.
But ...
A Black History Month salute was accorded three accomplished Bermudians by the Golden Elite Seniors Club of Allen Temple AME Church, Somerset at their monthly luncheon on Monday.
Singled out were Dr Ada Naomi Nyabongo, Nurse Moira Tucker Cann, and Ma...
Leonardo Mouwen, skills coach for Manchester City, believes there’s an exceptional amount of talent in Bermuda but wants to see them stop trying to imitate the players they see on television.
Mouwen was one of seven college and academy coaches, from ...
Patient satisfaction with acute care services at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital rose last year, according to figures released yesterday.
A survey carried out on behalf of Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) found that levels of satisfaction increased in...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Education Ministry has granted 22 exemptions to unlicensed teachers, allowing them to fill vacancies in the public school system.
Seventeen exemptions were announced in the House of Assembly last week by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
Sh...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Government has acknowledged that the civil servants’ pension scheme is unsustainable and plans a review.
And it expected that the review would take place during a one-year freeze of the scheme.
This is revealed in the answers to 25 questions put to P...
