Premier Paula Cox promised big savings, a new group to tackle gang violence and a drive to help struggling businesses across the Island, in her debut Throne Speech yesterday.
Repeating her pledge to make savings of at least $150 million in her first ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Apart from a pledge to introduce "master principals" in schools, education got little more than a passing mention in yesterday's Throne Speech — prompting criticism from both opposition parties.
But new Minister Dame Jennifer Smith told a press confe...
DATE: Nov 06, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Davis Guggenheim puts a human face on an unwieldy, seemingly unsolvable problem — the wretched state of America's public schools — in his latest documentary, "Waiting for 'Superma'."
The director of the Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" n...
The Throne Speech in full, as delivered by Governor Sir Richard Gozney at the reconvening of Parliament this morning.
Madam President and Members of the Senate, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly, the job of governing a country would be...
The Menuhin Foundation's efforts to bring music to schoolchildren Island-wide, has been recognised with a $3,000 donation from Bermuda Endowment for the Arts (BEA).
Trustees of the BEA joined the Menuhin Foundation's Saturday Centre recently to watch...
Facebook fugitive Alvone Maybury is today starting a 13-and-a-half-year jail sentence for carrying out a shooting and escaping custody.
Maybury described by his own lawyer as an "intellectual midget" fired at gang rivals on a city street just before ...
The Throne Speech, in full, as delivered by Governor Sir Richard Gozney at the reconvening of Parliament this morning.
GOVERNMENT OF BERMUDA
2010 SPEECH FROM THE THRONE
Madam President and Members of the Senate, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House o...
Premier Paula Cox promised to take a detailed look at the Island's pension system as part of her plan for Bermuda.
Listed in her National Plan presented to Progressive Labour Party delegates, the new Premier said Government would look at both public ...
Three years after the controversial Workforce Equity bill came and disappeared, its chief goals could be reignited under a new proposal from Premier Paula Cox.
In her national plan, Ms Cox says she will "formulate an action plan to redress inequities...
DATE: Nov 05, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
UPDATED WITH SLIDESHOW: In Premier Paula Cox’s first Throne Speech today Government outlined a raft of changes and pledged a new “needs-driven culture of accountability” within the Civil Service.
Governor Richard Gozney read the eight-page Throne Spe...
