A big pill to swallow
May 17th, 2008
Dear Sir,
"Fifteen percent is added for your convenience". An automatic gratuity added to food and beverage consumed in most restaurants and hotels in Bermuda. Forty some years ago when hotels incorporated the sch...
Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer unless Government can come up with an emergency plan to renovate its termite-infested ageing building.
The school's trustees have written to the Ministry of Education to say they are not prepared...
DATE: May 20, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Ten new HIV cases have been diagnosed in Bermuda in just the first five months of the year versus 17 in the whole of 2007.
That's why Caroline Armstrong, the director of Supportive Therapy for AIDS Persons and their Relatives (STAR) and AIDS walk org...
Work permit time limits have not led to the exodus of foreign workers from Bermuda that some had predicted, employment services expert Doug Soares told a conference in the Cayman Islands last week.
But Mr. Soares, a partner at Bermuda employment serv...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
Whitney Institute Middle School will close this summer, its board of trustees told the Ministry of Education today, The Royal Gazette understands.
Staff are said to be angry with the increasingly dilapidated state of the building and no longer consid...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has questioned proposals to change the way Bermuda's aided schools are run.
Dr. Gibbons told Friday's House of Assembly he had attended last week's public meeting at which the future of St. George's Preparatory...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Dear Annie: I am a single female in my 60s who feels very different from anyone else. I have never had any sexual desires – not for men, not for women, not for anyone. Is this what the term "asexual" means?
The idea of engaging in sex makes me cringe...
Beer bottles, soda cans and even text books were among the hundreds of trash bags collected by generous volunteers this weekend.
Lining North Shore Road, Devon Springs Road and up and down the Island were bulging black plastic garbage bags and rattli...
Why can't we take care of pets?
May 15, 2008
Dear Sir,
Kindly allow me the space in your newspaper to comment on the events of the last few days regarding veterinarians with Caricom credentials.
It seems as if for some sectors of this society the onl...
Environment Minister El James has dismissed suggestions Caribbean vets heading for Bermuda could have "sub par" education.
The Minister made a statement in the House of Assembly on Friday to counter concerns from local vets over the inclusion of the ...
DATE: May 19, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith