The Ministry of Education is seeking public opinion on its recently released five-year plan for public schools.
At a press conference this morning Education Minister El James said a series of public meetings are to be held next month.
The plan entitl...
Support staff at CedarBridge Academy today called in sick as part of an organised industrial action.
The Royal Gazette understands that teachers are filling in where possible.
Details behind the sick-out are unclear at the moment.
Bermuda Public Serv...
Why we are struggling
April 6, 2010
Dear Sir,
Have you ever wondered why the negative things that happen in Bermuda keep happening?
The reason is we who live here stop caring and the reason is we give up because we know the corruption and buddy syste...
While many folk nowadays associate the word "apprentice" with the television shenanigans of Mr. Donald "You're Fired!" Trump, it is in fact a noun and occupation stretching back over a thousand years. In the time before the mechanisation of productio...
In earlier times, though certainly not as prevalent today, men went off to war, or to work, while women kept the home fires, the crops, the livestock, the kids, and everyone else on their toes.
In this recession, from statistics, media (the mancessio...
HORSHAM, Pa. (AP) — Child-labour permits should have been obtained for children appearing on the TLC television show "Jon & Kate Plus 8," but the state will not take legal action against the producers, Pennsylvania regulators have concluded.
No actio...
A dramatic scene played out in Magistrates Court yesterday after a 20-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison for breach of probation.
Leroy Simons threw a chair at his father and had to be physically restrained by Police.
A woman claiming to...
Calls are growing for a major debate on decriminalising cannabis, with support said to be strong in some corners of the Progressive Labour Party.
Government Senator Walton Brown yesterday advocated a caucus discussion on Bermuda's drugs laws, claimin...
DATE: Apr 15, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
It's a character that has already had more than one life six months ago UZIMON was 'shot dead' on a street in New York City.
His 'remains' were flown to Bermuda where he miraculously 'rose again' during the Fright Night Halloween festivities at Fort ...
Time to get tough
April 2, 2010
Dear Sir,
Why is it that this latest act of brutal violence which had been inflicted upon a family (and our community as a whole) this past Good Friday at Victor Scott School grounds is considered any different than al...