Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is holding a chilli cook-off to raise funds for its art education programmes.
As a side benefit, one cook will win the bragging rights to the Island’s tastiest chilli.
“Close to 2,000 children take part in our art pr...
DATE: Oct 07, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
There's been a lot of talk recently about coming together as a community. And during the worst of times, Bermudians are well known for coming together to help their fellow neighbour.
After a hurricane we band together to clean up, and when the buses ...
The following is an abridged version of remarks made to Hamilton Rotary by newly-elected Greenrock President Dr Judith Landsberg. Judith originally earned her PhD in nuclear physics but has since worked as a management consultant, a teacher and an ed...
Bermudians are curbing their appetite for fried food, according to a survey of the Island’s health trends but four out of five adults are now watching more than two hours of television each day.
Since 2006, fast food consumption fell a total of five ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Teachers were congratulated, and the media castigated, at a ceremony honouring World Teacher’s Day.
Commending the Cambridge exam results announced this week for public schools students, Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) President Keisha Douglas told t...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Educators are not happy that this newspaper described the disagreement over what constitutes a passing grade in GCSE exams as a “row”. So be it. The fact is that this is a deadly serious issue which needs to be settled.
Quite simply, you cannot have...
“We’re trying to incorporate a new sense of community throughout the school,” stated Rachael Waldron, the 2011-2012 Head Girl of Saltus Grammar School. “As a team [of head and deputy head prefects] we work to evoke a sense of Saltus Pride. We find th...
A former office manager charged with a string of sex attacks on an employee agreed he “hand-selected” the much younger man for the job and took him under his wing.
Mr Y told Magistrates’ Court that throughout his life he had helped individuals who ne...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A row has broken out over what constitutes a pass for the IGCSE exams taken by Bermuda secondary school students.
Educators evaluating IGCSE results for Bermuda’s public schools have said the more rigorous C grade is the internationally accepted mea...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A teacher locked in a legal battle with Government over alleged bullying by a special school principal is to appeal an arbitrator’s decision in the case.
Claudia DeSilva has filed grievances against Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy head Dena Butterfie...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
