Government released the Terra Nova results for the 2008 academic year this week, and, if nothing else, they made the case for the need for education reform.
While there were some marginal improvements in the tests of language and reading, maths score...
A VAST, threatening cloud of smoke hovered over good parts of Sumatra, Borneo, Malaysia and Singapore for months.
In parts of Indonesia the sun was invisible and in Singapore people suffered breathing difficulties when the wind blew the wrong way. Pe...
THIS weekend is your last opportunity to see Bermuda through the abstract expressionist eye of artist Barbara Dillas. Her one-woman show at Masterworks Museum at the Botanical Gardens, which opened on September 5, closes on Tuesday,.
Speaking with Mi...
Volunteers will be out this weekend helping to clean up the seas around Bermuda as part of a big drive Keep Bermuda Beautiful to keep the Island – beautiful.
On Saturday KBB is having its annual marine clean-up day and this year it will form part of ...
One of the island's best-known retailers has spoken out on the bleak outlook for his sector, blaming falling cruise arrivals and the US economy for the latest spate of store closings.
Entrepreneur John Casling said that both the current recession and...
Algae - it's green, it's slimy, it could be the answer to the world's growing fuel shortage.
And the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is on the cutting edge of algal biofuels research
Jessica Dean, a senior at Oregon State University is co...
Education Minister Randy Horton will travel to Washington, DC this week to attend the Global Summit on Education 2008 and hear about inclusive practices for disabled students.
The Minister announced at a press conference yesterday that he had receive...
DATE: Sep 18, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Enrolment at Bermuda College has risen dramatically this semester — and education chiefs said yesterday it was largely thanks to the free tuition now on offer.
The publicly funded community college has seen a 25 per cent increase in overall enrolment...
DATE: Sep 18, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Success Series will continue with another segment of Acting for Success.
Auditions are set to take place at The Ruth Seaton James Centre for the Performing Arts next Thursday September 25, at 6.30 pm.
Asked what entrants would have to do to pre...
Deafening silence
September 15, 2008
Dear Sir,
Numerous religious institutions have vehemently argued against Harry Potter books, gay rights and gay cruises. Nothing has been said about the Premier visiting the Playboy Mansion.
HOW BIZARRE
Southampto...
