WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mothers can pass along their experiences to their children without even trying, researchers reported in a surprising study last week that showed baby mice could inherit the benefits of "education" that their mothers received be...
When it comes to reading, all the promotional campaigns in the world can't measure up to the power of the family.
This was the word from American reading expert Patricia Edwards, president of the International Reading Association, who was on the Isla...
Dear Annie: I would like your advice about my parents, who are in their 70s. Mom and Dad survive off a small amount of Social Security. Unfortunately, they are addicted to buying lottery tickets.
I've seen stacks of $10 tickets, many of which are mai...
It's no surprise
February 10, 2009
Dear Sir,
Why does it seem such a surprise to Rolfe Commissiong that people do not wish to join the PLP, regardless of rhetoric? Why would one want to join when the PLP seems incapable of keeping a timely set of boo...
The Bermuda Reading Association has been around by various names since 1977.
The organisation was called the Bermuda Reading Teachers' Council until 1986, when it was renamed The Bermuda Reading Council (BRC). It became the Bermuda Reading Associatio...
The expert charged with transforming Bermuda's public schools is likely to leave the Island before his two-year contract runs out in June, The Royal Gazette has been told.
Three sources say that US consultant Henry Johnson — brought here on a $250,00...
DATE: Feb 10, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Royal Gazette February 17, 1959 pg 1
The House of Assembly yesterday, for the second time in nine months, found itself debating the position of the Portuguese farm labourer in Bermuda.
Last July a move by Mr. Morris Gibbons to allow Portuguese wi...
The Wilderness
Smith's Parish
February 22, 1959
The Editor
The Royal Gazette
Dear Sir,
The saying of the week is: "Education fills the labourer full of tricks."
I claim I have been misquoted. I claim I said: "A man sometimes is full of tricks."
Colon...
The Royal Gazette February 17, 1959 pg 1
The House of Assembly yesterday, for the second time in nine months, found itself debating the position of the Portuguese farm labourer in Bermuda.
Last July a move by Mr. Morris Gibbons to allow Portuguese wi...
Three years ago, statistics showed that more than one-third of children between the ages of five and 10 were overweight or obese and figures from 2001 revealed a quarter of children aged between 11 and 17 also fell into this category.
And according t...
