The chairman of the Defence Board, along with a trailblazer in Bermuda's reinsurance industry, have been awarded OBEs in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Garry Anthony Madeiros, a former Belco CEO, was awarded for his services as the Defence B...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has revealed the extent of teaching cuts, saying a total of 97 staff have been axed from Bermuda’s public schools.
Dame Jennifer told the House of Assembly today that the job losses included 30 para-professional...
June 6, 2011
Dear Sir,
There were five Letters to the Editor in The Royal Gazette this morning (June 6). Four of them addressed our deep racial divide, in one way or another. Neither Mr Commissiong or I wrote either of them! So why is so much hostil...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Minister Michael Weeks says charities need better regulation so people know where their money is going when they make donations on the streets.
The Community Development Minister has vowed to crack down on the Island’s charities to “protect the publi...
The unveiling of a memorial honouring a six-year-old who tragically died in 2003 brought her mother to tears yesterday.
Margret Moore said the plaque perfectly captured her daughter Tyaisha Cox’s smile something her family misses most.
“She was alwa...
Bermuda will be borrowing ideas from anti-gang initiatives in the United States as authorities try to get to grips with the Island's spiralling gun violence.
Methods championed by the Interagency Anti-Gang Task Force yesterday included Brooklyn's Sav...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The inflation rate hit 2.4 percent during April down from 2.5 percent in March driven by the rising cost of healthcare, according to the latest Government figures.
The Department of Statistics’ Consumer Price Index also revealed that the average cost...
I am to congratulate the Hon Dame Jennifer Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL, MP, Minister of Education, and the Ministry of Education on the move to downsize the number of teachers and para-educators in the school system! I'm no education expert but I'm a teach...
DATE: Jun 10, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment | AUTHOR: DJLT
Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox dropped in on the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) to meet the Authority’s graduate trainees this week.
During the informal meeting, the Premier said that the BMA’s Graduate Training Programme (GTP) was very pra...
When Pastor Dean Smith was contemplating becoming a Big Brother he was worried that he would not have enough time to do a good job and give his Little all the help and friendship he needed. After all Pastor Smith has a demanding job and he had alread...
