Former Finance Minister Grant Gibbons has questioned the PLP's commitment to opening up the parliamentary committee which scrutinises public spending, pointing out that it rejected such a move in 2004.
Dr. Gibbons was responding to a claim made earli...
DATE: Jan 28, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Royal Gazette is today launching a special education series on the 50th anniversary of the theatre boycott, which broke down racial segregation in Bermuda's public places.
The boycott, which took place in June and July 1959 also paved the way for...
Bermuda College will be coordinating the Island's national spelling contest for elementary school children for the final time this year.
It is a bittersweet event for organisers who launched the competition in conjunction with the Ministry of Educat...
CHICAGO (AP) – A new study from Italy adds to a mountain of evidence that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines doesn't hurt children, offering more reassurance to parents. In the early 1990s, thousands of healthy Italian babies in ...
As the local clubs in Bermuda battle in the FA Cup and challenge for positions in the league, the Baltimore Blast are pushing and doing everything we can to stay in first place.
If we could end the season at the top we would get a bye to the champion...
Bermuda Cedar trees are to be distributed to every student in Bermuda as part of the Island's 400th anniversary celebrations.
The Ministry of Education yesterday joined forces with Save Open Spaces (SOS) at the group's greenhouse, in Devonshire, to a...
A Bermudian doctor in training believes that the Bermuda College motto 'magna mirabilia portendi' – 'great and wonderful things are about to happen' – can easily be applied to the future of cancer treatment.
Dr. Sheldon Holder is this year's Bermuda ...
Two stories in Saturday's newspaper show that the supposedly neutral Civil Service is under threat.
One concerns the surprise move of the Premier's secretary – while she was on holiday – to another job in the Cabinet Office. The other concerns propos...
Speakers from the United States, the UK and Canada will be at the Centre on Philanthropy's second biennial third sector conference 'The Power of One' next month.
Workshops will focus on fund-raising, governance, grant-making, strategic planning and m...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
People are more resentful about race in Bermuda now than they were half a century ago when blacks were discriminated against in theatres, restaurants, hotels and schools.
That is the opinion of 90-year-old former civil rights activist Georgine Hill, ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith