Education Minister Randy Horton deserves a certain amount of credit for both commissioning and releasing the report on the CedarBridge Academy mould crisis, not least because it does not reflect well on his Ministry.
Indeed, the best that can be said...
It was conceived in the early 1990s as a flagship “mega school” at the heart of a massive reform of public education in Bermuda. But CedarBridge Academy, badly built and never properly looked after according to a hard-hitting report released last we...
DATE: May 28, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Next Saturday, 157 Bermuda-based candidates will take a gruelling examination that will help them on the long road to becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
They will be among nearly 100,000 candidates world-wide taking level one, two or three...
DATE: May 28, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
The UBP has defended its right to scrutinise the Premier’s travel expenses as the row over how he spent $287,000 in ten months deepens.
Last night a breakdown in costs was still unavailable but the Premier has not disputed that he and his entourage t...
As a man who began as a pot washer, restaurant chain boss Philip Barnett has little patience with those who expect employers to hand them plum jobs despite their lack of experience.Now president of the Island Restaurant Group, which includes the Pick...
*A comprehensive, scientific study of the health of all those at CedarBridge should be conducted to determine whether mould or poor indoor air quality is to blame for “the many cases of illness”. Data collection and analysis for health-based absences...
The time for polite debate is over. Militant, atheist writers are making an all-out assault on religious faith and reaching the top of the best-seller list, a sign of widespread resentment over the influence of religion in the world among non-believe...
Key findings of the panel tasked with getting to the bottom of CedarBridge Academy’s mould crisis:
The panel spoke to 14 students with respiratory problems and other allergies and concluded that they were “very probably” caused by exposure to mould....
A series of measures to crack down on money laundering and international terrorism received cross-party support in the House of Assembly last night.
The 2007 Proceeds of Crime Amendment Bill, the Criminal Justice (International Cooperation) (Bermuda)...
One student almost died and at least 13 others suffered illnesses which were “very probably” caused by mould infestation at CedarBridge Academy, a shocking new report reveals.
An independent panel interviewed almost 100 people in connection with the ...
DATE: May 26, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways