Tributes have been paid to former headmistress Dorothy Thompson, who has died at the age of 83.
Dr. Thompson, a Bermudian, was headmistress of Prospect Secondary School for Girls for many years.
The school was founded in 1958 and closed in the 1970s....
Government Senator Marc Bean called for a revolution of the educational system, saying he thought the existing system is “trash”.
While the system was put in place before the PLP took power, he admonished the party for not doing enough to change it.
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Blue-collar jobs should be "a choice, not an inevitability" for young black Bermudian males, Labour Minister David Burch told the Senate yesterday.
He said there was a dearth of local black men in the "high echelons of the business world" and studies...
DATE: Jun 03, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Andrew Green had one big reason to donate $50,000 to Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre — to honour his mother who lost her fight with the disease 20 years ago.
The 29-year-old and his father Peter Green, 74, presented the charity with the donation yes...
Students looking to pursue higher education can now search and apply for around 200 scholarships on a single website.
The Bermuda Donor Forum, a part of The Centre on Philanthropy, yesterday announced the launch of www.bermudascholarships.com, a webs...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
It was as a teenager at Berkeley Institute that Merate-Kristos Place first realised she had to be a physician.
"My high school biology classes at Berkeley helped me to realise how amazing the human body is. I really enjoyed learning how the body work...
Students looking to pursue higher education can now search and apply for around 200 scholarships on a single website.
The Bermuda Donor Forum, a part of The Centre on Philanthropy, today announced the launch of www.bermudascholarships.com.
The websit...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two more young Bermudians have just returned from an intensive four-month course in journalism in the UK bringing the total number of staff sent by The Royal Gazette to seven in five years.
Owain Johnston-Barnes, 28, and Nadia Arandjelovic, 23, were ...
A taste of Bollywood is coming to Bermuda as part of the first major fund-raising event for the newly created Bermuda Environmental Alliance.
One of the dance routines featured in the hit film 'Slumdog Millionaire' is to be recreated in the Fairmont ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Bermuda continues to have a bright future as a global insurance centre, despite political threats from the US and elsewhere, according to Flagstone Re co-founder Mark Byrne.
What matters to the Island is not whether insurers domicile their holding co...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent