Charities, including children’s foster home Sunshine League, are projected to lose more than $400,000 in grants as Government slashed its spending in yesterday’s Budget.
The Sunshine League, which has provided displaced children between the ages of ...
Andy Warhol once said in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.
Annie Young certainly had her moment in the spotlight yesterday arguably for all the wrong reasons.
Ms Young is the owner of True Reflections, a Hamilton store selling every...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The cost of interest alone on Bermuda’s spiralling public debt equates to $191,780 per day.
That is according to the Budget statement released by Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday, which shows that Government borrowing has surged past ...
The Island's two senior schools have seen their budgets cut by more than 20 percent while learning support, counselling and summer school programmes have been cut by more than 30 percent.
Yesterday Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith announced ...
Programmes to help at-risk young people and small businesses were two victims of Premier Paula Cox’s cost-cutting Budget yesterday.
The Mirrors programme repeatedly heralded for turning around the lives of young men and women since its launch four ye...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox yesterday cut payroll tax, hoping to stimulate the economy and lead Bermuda into recovery from recession.
Reversing the unpopular two percentage point rise she imposed last year so payroll tax returns to 14 percent Ms Cox says she’s...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The Ministry of Education is refusing to say whether it has appointed a principal for Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy more than three years after the last one left.
Dr Dena Lister is listed on the Ministry’s website as principal but there has never b...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Falling house prices and rent, a shrinking population, rising health care costs, patchy public schools’ performance and huge numbers of people working for Government.
Sounds like the average critic’s snapshot of Bermuda today, but that’s economist Pe...
Bermuda Football Association’s (BFA) technical director Derek Broadley has been appointed as the head coach of US team Knoxville Force.
Broadley will take charge of the side’s debut season in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) this summer afte...
Artists are going to get creative with bags of garbage collected from a clean-up of Jobson’s Cove.
Seven artists from the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard will use trash found at the Warwick beach to craft works for a show at the gallery next month, T...
DATE: Feb 17, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
