BHS student Mariangela Bucci has been named the 2011 Young Philanthropist of the year for her work in the community.
Both her school and her mother nominated the 17-year-old student who has worked heavily with environmental group Greenrock, where she...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Shadow Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin last night asked Premier Paula Cox to name the Cabinet consultants who have had their services axed after “unnecessarily feeding at the trough”.
The Opposition MP applauded the fact that the Cabine...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A reduction in spending on Cabinet Office departments in the coming fiscal year will not be as dramatic as Government would like us to believe, according to former Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons.
He told the House of Assembly last night that the 17 ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Water Wise is an introductory sailing programme for M1 students.
The students go through a series of land sessions. During these sessions, students are taught the different parts of the boat and sails, wind direction, steering and how to move from s...
Boys wear summer sleeves, The guinea pig is rustling, Poetry is Art That was The Royal Gazette’s struggling attempt at a Japanese haiku after sitting in on a Bermuda National Gallery (BNG) creative writing workshop with poet Donna Bell.
The week of ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
Bermuda now has an “adopt-a-beach” programme, thanks to eight-year-old Samuel Bleeker. The East End Primary pupil has been commended by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
Samuel said he noticed the scheme about three weeks ago while researching ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A legal challenge against the appointment of a principal at a special school could be launched, The Royal Gazette understands.
A staff member at Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy, which has about 25 students with multiple physical and cognitive challen...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
What price open space?
February 25, 2011
Dear Sir,
If we were to set an economic value on our precious open space and it is high time we did it would then be clear that granting an SDO to allow the development of land currently zoned nature reserve,...
DATE: Mar 02, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
A white teacher who was ostracised for educating blacks, including former Premier Sir John Swan, was yesterday honoured for his contributions to the Island.
The late Edwin Skinner, who founded the Howard Academy in 1944, tutored children of all colo...
Teachers and students only found out The Educational Centre is to close when they read about it in this newspaper, multiple sources claimed last night.
The centre, in Devonshire, helps students whose behavioural issues are so severe that they have be...
