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...
New community sports centre Sandys 360 is aiming to help train the Island's next top athletes.
There is also hope that the facility will help children excel in their studies math and English classes are taught to increase SAT scores and improve colle...
Dear Annie: I have been married to "Jim" for over 20 years. We love each other deeply, and I would never dream of hurting him. I recently had a friendly lunch with "Pete," my oldest and dearest friend. Afterward, I realised I still have deep feelings...
Argus Group Holdings Ltd. yesterday named Sheila Nicoll as its new chairman.
Ms Nicholl, who boasts a wealth of international experience in the insurance industry, having worked at Lloyd's of London and on the New York Insurance Exchange, succeeds Dr...
Sixteen-year-old Tori Segourney Smith gave up hours of her free time to volunteer in the community because she could.
She's now the youngest ever recipient of a CableVision Community Service Award, and says it's all been worthwhile.
"I don't regret a...
This August, Bermuda will take a walk with the world, to raise money for the world's poorest people.
Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) International's Gawad Kalinga (GK) Walk kicks off in Bermuda on August 23.
'Gawad Kalinga' translates from Taga...
