Five primary schools could close and a new senior alternative school be built as the Ministry of Education looks to take drastic measures to improve student performance.
While the changes are still in the preliminary phase, some of them could be impl...
Principals at public schools operate at real disadvantages to their private school counterparts, according to the head of the teaching union.
Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) General Secretary Mike Charles was speaking after Saltus Headmaster Ted Stau...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — US researchers have identified ten locations in California that have double the rates of autism found in surrounding areas, and these clusters were located in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of white, highly educated paren...
Bermuda insurance industry veteran Alan Cossar has been appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA).
Mr. Cossar, who has 33 years experience in the sector, 29 of which were spent with Aon Captive Services Grou...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) — Now that you're discovering all the extra flab from the Christmas and New Year food and booze binge, you're casting around for the latest diet to lose it all in time for summer. But take care before you choose.
The British Di...
As if the United Bermuda Party hasn't had enough people sticking the knife in over the past few months, Kim Swan thinks he has identified one of its biggest enemies of all — itself.
The UBP leader kicked off 2010 by declaring he's now starting to fig...
Lack of leadership
January 8, 2010
Dear Sir,
Bermuda is in the worst crisis of its 400 year history. We are in the throes of murder and mayhem week in and week out and I have to ask the question, "Where is the Premier in all of this – and why have we...
DATE: Jan 13, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other |
Contradictions abound
December 31, 2009
Dear Sir,
As this decade ends, the contradictions in our community are becoming more and more pronounced. December 2009 has been the stellar month for this. A few examples:
• Michael Dunkley in the Senate "we n...
Dale Butler's premiership ambitions could fail because he supports banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, according to the Premier's consultant Rolfe Commissiong.
Mr. Commissiong said Mr. Butler's call to amend the Human Rights ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The third annual televised Bermuda 100 Day Challenge, a weight-loss themed reality television show, launched yesterday with a weigh-in at the King Edward Memorial Hospital.
Contestants were weighed and assessed by a team of nurses from the Bermuda Ho...
