March 3, 2011
Dear Sir,
There is a TV advertisement, being shown on a local station, in which Sheelagh Cooper solicits funding for the Coalition for the Protection of Children’s free breakfast programme for certain public schools.
In the advertisemen...
DATE: Mar 31, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
The Island Games basketball team will have to wait at least another week before learning whether veteran Chris Crumpler will join the squad for this summer’s competition.
Crumpler is currently in talks with an overseas club and so cannot yet commit t...
Property owners in Hamilton could end up like those who famously dropped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, Independent Senator Walwyn Hughes warned yesterday.
But although United Bermuda Party Senators also questioned the wisdom of “disenfranchising” c...
DATE: Mar 31, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards has questioned whether police are doing a good enough job with the millions of dollars in additional funding they have been given.
He told the House of Assembly he wasn’t convinced the extra money from Government ...
The Argus Group, alongside the Bermuda Hospitals Board and the Department of Health, will this year focus on heart health during the annual Health Fair.
The Argus Health Fair, will take place on April 7, featuring more than 35 booths representing var...
MPs last night approved more than $160 million in government overspends since 2002.
Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards lambasted Government for taking so long to bring the supplementary estimates to the House of Assembly.
“Why is that we are in Mar...
DATE: Mar 29, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
When acting Child Development Programme language supervisor, Aprille Choudhury-DeShield worked with one little boy this week, he turned his head curiously when he heard the sound of a truck in the yard.
It sounds like a minor thing, except that the ...
A new sculpture by artist Bill Ming will be unveiled on Front Street today.
‘Against Da Tide’ was commissioned by HSBC Bermuda, and will sit in front of the bank’s Front Street headquarters at Albuoy’s Point.
The sculpture was commissioned to meet Pl...
There is nothing “shocking” about Bermuda’s teenagers planning to launch their careers overseas, according to Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
She told the House of Assembly she would expect the majority of young people at school abroad to sta...
DATE: Mar 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Land surveyor Quinell Laquita Francis hopes to help restore St George to its past glory as the newest common councillor for the Corporation.
Ms Francis said she had been prepared for the campaigning process but, at the end of the nomination period, h...
DATE: Mar 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes