Bermuda's children are growing up with a spirit of fear and death, Senate President Carol Ann Bassett said yesterday.
Senator Bassett was speaking after joining Texas-based group Christ For The Nations in counselling sessions with schoolchildren affe...
DATE: Jun 02, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The founders of the original Boaz Island Nursery School (BINS) are looking to reunite with some of their old students.
The idea is to share some of their happy memories from the 1970s and 1980s. A reunion is being organised for later this month by fo...
Kellan Lewis’ 12-year sentence for his role in the killing of Kellon Hill was “manifestly excessive,” according to defence lawyer John Perry QC.
Mr Perry told the Court of Appeal yesterday that, if the court decides to uphold his client’s conviction,...
DATE: Jun 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
May 28, 2011
Dear Sir,
I would like to make a point in reference to our schoolchildren getting more exercise. In spite of the fact that there are after school programmes encouraging those that want to participate an opportunity to enrol, this method...
DATE: Jun 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A fifth of Bermuda’s paraprofessionals and educational therapists have had their jobs axed, it was announced yesterday.
Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith said 30 out of a total 150 staff will be affected.
Paraprofessionals and educational the...
The CONCACAF region –descended into chaos last night after its acting president tried to fire whistleblower Chuck Blazer.
Lisle Austin, from Barbados, who was only appointed to the role on Monday, told his region’s general secretary in a stinging let...
Thirty education posts are to be axed as part of cost-cutting measures, the Education Minister announced today.
In a statement this evening Dame Jennifer Smith said that in line with the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Bermuda Union of Teach...
Students at Warwick Academy have learned about the Freedom Riders who took a heroic stand against segregation and racist hatred.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, more than 100 students, parents and staff came together to lea...
Two ex-students were among the politicians who gave heartfelt tributes to former Warwick Academy headteacher Joseph (Zacky) Marshall.
Dr Marshall died aged 83 after serving as Warwick Academy headteacher from 1972 until his retirement in 1987.
Politi...
Teachers could get official letters of termination by tomorrow as the Ministry of Education deals with a ten percent budget cut.
Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles last night said a collective agreement is in place saying any te...
DATE: May 31, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Tim Smith