Flummoxed by feeds
August 3, 2009
Dear Sir,
Can someone explain why channel 10 Fox on Bermuda Cablevision switches to channel 15 City TV's feed during prime time (9 p.m.-11 p.m.) when if you wanted to watch City TV you just have to press 15 on your ...
It's likely that Friday's announcement by the Ministry of Education that 24 students will repeat their M3 year in middle school rather than going on to Berkeley Institute or CedarBridge Academy will cause some debate in education circles and in the b...
Gun crime and gang activity has soared. But why? Mirrors coordinator Kimberley Jackson has some clues
Alienated from their own communities but dangerously identified by them by enemy gangs that is the bizarre contradiction facing many teens trapped ...
Two more young Bermudians have joined the editorial staff of The Royal Gazette just as one more has come back from intensive journalism training in the UK.
Nadia Arandjelovic, aged 22, and Owain Johnston-Barnes, aged 27, have started as trainee journ...
El James has been reappointed Education Minister and was sworn-in at a ceremony at Government House this morning.
Mr. James lost his portfolio last month after publicly calling for Premier Ewart Brown to resign in the House of Assembly.
But insiders ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Twenty four students who should have started senior school next month are being made to redo their final year of middle school after failing an exam.
Acting Education Minister Kim Wilson announced yesterday that the pupils were given three chances to...
DATE: Aug 15, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Treasury is getting ready to issue a boatload of inflation-protected bonds to please investors who are afraid that an economic recovery will be accompanied by rising prices.
Many of those investors are foreign — loans from China are covering almo...
Saltus unfairly criticised
August 7, 2009
Dear Sir,
Last night, during the VSB news programme, US Consul General Gregory Slayton commented on education in Bermuda. During the segment, he stated that the private schools could improve and referenced Sa...
Scholarship awards worth $90,000 have been handed out to ten students planning to further their education overseas.
Erek Fox, Shaydrina Hassell, Jayné Smith and Antionay Tankard are all flying off to launch university careers after scooping grants fr...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Funding constraints have forced the Ministry of Education to trim the planned number of assistant directors by more than half.
The Ministry originally had 13 assistant directors' posts but will now decrease the number to six.
The Ministry of Educatio...
