Skin cancer is a colourblind and fatal disease, according to Rhonda Smith-Simmons, education officer at the Bermuda Cancer Health Centre.
She told a meeting of Hamilton Rotarians this week that “skin cancer is the most preventable cancer, so it is re...
Two Bermudians were last week chosen to represent Bermuda in a prestigious modelling competition to be held in London next spring - after another Bermudian girl won the same competition in March. Jessie Moniz recently sat down with all three girls at...
There’s an old saying, little girls are made of sugar and spice, but when Dr Monique Jethwani-Keyser conducted interviews with 17 Bermuda teenage girls, she found them to be more spice than sugar.
The girls she interviewed were more likely to talk ba...
THERE is so much noise in the news these days the education system is failing; companies are leaving; tourists aren't spending; unemployment is rising, and as I said last quarter, folks want the jobs but not the work. After my last article, I receive...
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons accused Government of electioneering with talk of adopting the Career Academies initiative from the United States.
Dr Gibbons said he’s heard many promises in recent years that young people will be given more t...
DATE: Aug 02, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox last night promised that Bermuda’s long-awaited public access to information (PATI) law would become operational “in the second half of 2012”.
The legislation was passed in Parliament on July 23, 2010, when then Premier Ewart Brown...
DATE: Aug 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermudian Melissa Looby, 23, was pregnant, but well on her way to a certificate in law from University of Kent Law School when she suddenly went into labour three months early.
Her son Tori Jr (TJ) was born prematurely in Bermuda, and then flown to ...
Historic scenes of Dockyard are featured on Bermuda’s newest series of stamps.
The series was unveiled by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kim Wilson, at a ceremony in Commissioner’s House one of the iconic Dockyard buildings depicted on the stam...
DATE: Jul 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has welcomed an ongoing review of special needs education in the public school system, calling it “necessary and long overdue”.
The review began earlier this year following a recommendation in Ombudsman Arlene ...
Local businesses will play a key role lining young people up for long-term careers under the Island’s Jobs Corps vocational programme.
Community Development Minister Michael Weeks said Government wants to tap into the knowledge and expertise of the b...
DATE: Jul 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
