The Island's two senior schools have seen their budgets cut by more than 20 percent while learning support, counselling and summer school programmes have been cut by more than 30 percent.
Yesterday Minister of Education Dame Jennifer Smith announced ...
Programmes to help at-risk young people and small businesses were two victims of Premier Paula Cox’s cost-cutting Budget yesterday.
The Mirrors programme repeatedly heralded for turning around the lives of young men and women since its launch four ye...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Premier Paula Cox yesterday cut payroll tax, hoping to stimulate the economy and lead Bermuda into recovery from recession.
Reversing the unpopular two percentage point rise she imposed last year so payroll tax returns to 14 percent Ms Cox says she’s...
DATE: Feb 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The Ministry of Education is refusing to say whether it has appointed a principal for Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy more than three years after the last one left.
Dr Dena Lister is listed on the Ministry’s website as principal but there has never b...
DATE: Feb 18, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Falling house prices and rent, a shrinking population, rising health care costs, patchy public schools’ performance and huge numbers of people working for Government.
Sounds like the average critic’s snapshot of Bermuda today, but that’s economist Pe...
Bermuda Football Association’s (BFA) technical director Derek Broadley has been appointed as the head coach of US team Knoxville Force.
Broadley will take charge of the side’s debut season in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) this summer afte...
Artists are going to get creative with bags of garbage collected from a clean-up of Jobson’s Cove.
Seven artists from the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard will use trash found at the Warwick beach to craft works for a show at the gallery next month, T...
DATE: Feb 17, 2011 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
Premier Paula Cox delivers her first Budget in her new joint role as leader of the Country and Finance Minister tomorrow.
In that sense, this is her opportunity to show what she can do when she is more than “a cog in the wheel” and to give a genuine ...
Do you love watching youth demonstrate their talents? Do you want to see them do something more productive with their time than watch TV and play video games? Or maybe you just want to see a good show?
The Berkeley Institute will be holding their fi...
As part of a three-day expedition for their Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award, 33 students from Warwick Academy undertook two conservation projects.
On the first day of the expedition they constructed 12 bluebird nest boxes which will be available fo...
