Almost half of British employers have invested in remedial training for school and college leavers because they are so dissatisfied with their basic skill levels.
That was one of the revelations from the the CBI / EDI annual Education & Skills surve...
Workplace suicides in 2009 matched the record-high level they hit in 2008, according to final data released this week by the US Labor Department.
The number of workplace suicides workers who took their own life while on the job reached 263 in 2009, ...
Inflation hit 2.5 percent in March 2011, driven by the rising cost of healthcare, according to the latest figures released by Government.
The rate of inflation which dropped from the 3.2 percent rate measured in February compares to a 2.3 percent inc...
Inflation stood at 2.5 percent in March - down from 3.2 percent the previous month, according to figures released by Government this afternoon.
The health and personal care sector - which includes the cost of doctor’s visits, health insurance, prescr...
May 2, 2011
Dear Sir,
With this latest tragedy of a young man shot for no reason, I feel compelled to state the obvious to the public. Stop voting for an inept Government. Crime and prices are the only things that have gone up under the PLP governmen...
DATE: May 09, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Keep ferries runningMay 6, 2011
Dear Sir,
Being Bermuda born and now retired from work in England, I would like to visit Bermuda every two years to meet up with friends and visit my old haunts. I managed this in 2003, 2005 and 2007, but with the fina...
DATE: May 09, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
New political party One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) has vowed to “represent all Bermudians from all walks of life” regardless of race and class.
The United Bermuda Party and the Bermuda Democratic Alliance will merge next week with the new party’s draft c...
Terrence Dill and Chris Crumpler have both hailed the Bermuda Gas SKY Basketball All-Star Weekend as a successful event despite the local All-Stars losing 80-68 to the SKY Streetball Basketball team at Berkeley Institute on Saturday.
Dill returned to...
Although the formal dissolution of the United Bermuda Party won’t take place until Tuesday, the UBP effectively shut down this week, and did so not with a bang but a whimper.
In many ways, this is bittersweet, and it would be wrong not to acknowledg...
The average foreign-grown banana travels more than 6,000 miles to reach your hand. Along the way it is virtually embalmed with various chemicals designed to pass it through import regulations, and preserve it long enough to reach you in an edible sta...
