Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has responded to reports of impending jobs cuts due to budget reasons at CedarBridge Academy.
The Royal Gazette understands that $1.8 million must be cut from CedarBridge’s budget, with $1.4 million to be axed f...
DATE: May 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith said today Government was willing to meet with school boards as they try and meet financial targets.
Earlier this week The Royal Gazette revealed that CedarBridge Academy has been instructed to trim $1.8 milli...
New leader of the One Bermuda Alliance John Barritt has announced his shadow cabinet with places for all the former BDA MPs.
The full list is:
Deputy Leader Senator Craig Cannonier is Shadow Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry
Senator Michael ...
There was loud applause and cheers for each of the 107 who yesterday graduated as Bermuda College’s class of 2011.
One graduate who took a special share of applause was 25-year-old Magic Boyles the only one who came away with two degrees: an Associat...
DATE: May 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Angry teachers are to discuss how the comments of Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith have “fuelled the negative characterisation” of the public school system.
Teachers are getting together at the end of this month to debate Dame Jennifer’s accusa...
A special needs teacher has launched a legal battle against the Ministry of Education after being suspended from Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy.
The lawyer for Claudia DeSilva accuses the Ministry of “unfair, unlawful and completely biased actions” ...
DATE: May 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Scores of school students were involved in a mass brawl at the bus station, which started with one boy swinging his backpack at another.
Eyewitnesses reported the “huge fight” breaking out between mainly teenage boys from the Island’s senior schools ...
Hundreds of friends and family gathered yesterday at Bermuda College for the commencement ceremony of the Class of 2011.
“The reason these events are called commencement is that graduation is not an end, but a beginning,” said Associate in Science gr...
DATE: May 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
May 17, 2011
Dear Sir,
With a possible election looming , the voters have the following to consider:
a) Are they better off now?
b) Do they feel safe in their homes?
c) Are there abundant employment opportunities?
d) Could public education be improve...
DATE: May 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Due to the way the week and the holiday fall this year, I have to wish you all a happy Bermuda Day this week. But, this week’s epidemic is the emasculation of black men. I have labelled 2011 as the Year of the Woman, because it truly is the year of t...
