Waste of words
May 25, 2008
Dear Sir,
I tuned in to hear the House of Assembly on Friday, May 16, to listen to the debate on the drug policy. It was a waste of time for the simple reason I remember Nancy Reagan (US president's wife) say these words: ...
Minister of Education Randolph Horton has been inducted into the prestigious Hall of Fame of the Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island.
Now Mr. Horton, 63, recognised as a scholar athlete, will join the ranks of high pro...
The shake-up of public schools in the wake of the Hopkins Report will result in redundancies within Government.
At a meeting of the education reform team with The Royal Gazette, Education Minister Randolph Horton confirmed: "There will be a significa...
Government has teamed up with Island Soccer League Commissioner David Bascome to launch an anti-gang initiative called Hope for Life.
Announcing the $200,000 venture this afternoon, Minister of Labour, Home Affairs and Housing David Burch explained i...
The quest for independence
May 28, 2008
Dear Sir,
Once again we have been reminded by the Premier the quest for independence is unassailable, inescapable and on the top of the priority list. Unlike our 'double jeopardy laws' where one cannot be trie...
Government is to push ahead with a radical overhaul of the school system to decentralise education and place more power in the hands of principals.
Members of the reform team responsible for implementing the ten recommendations of the Hopkins Report ...
Tuesday June 24
Elbow Beach Wellness Series presents Monica Dobbie on "Supercharge your Subconscious for positive change".
Thursday June 26
Neuroscience in Education Conference, Fairmont Southampton with David Boulton & Cheryl Chia 8.30 a.m. -12.30...
Nine local charities received donations totalling nearly $500,000 from the Bank of Bermuda Foundation during the fourth quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008.
A statement from the foundation, which has donated more than $39.3 millionsince 198...
DATE: May 28, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The abused and orphaned children in Pastor Julius Bonani's church are the face of an AIDS epidemic that is killing nearly 1,000 South Africans a day and infecting even more.
And yet, the 18 children who live in Bonani's...
They say that poetry doesn't pay, but a group of Bermudians used it to raise more than $2,000 for charity.
A group of amateur poets calling themselves PoeTree started holding open mic poetry nights a few months ago.
Many of them are associated with t...
