It's official: Ten-year-old Nate Lang is Bermuda's best speller.
The Somersfield Academy student stormed to victory in Saturday night's final of Bermuda SpellDown ¿ a night of tension, triumph and even a few tears.
Nate, from Southampton, won a famil...
Government has promised to consult the public on a national energy policy to make the Island more sustainable.
The Green Paper could result in more offshore wind generation and domestic micro-renewable sources, such as wind turbines, Photovoltaic (PV...
Teachers, parents and students hearing the Throne Speech may well have experienced a deep sense of déjà vu — for there was nothing about education which hadn't already been announced.
Government promised to "fix" the education system, give the new Bo...
DATE: Feb 04, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
New United Bermuda Party MP Mark Pettingill has hit out at what he calls the indoctrination of young people by the Progressive Labour Party.
Mr. Pettingill, who won Warwick West as his party fell to its third successive defeat, said the PLP had fough...
A right to object
January 31, 2008
Dear Sir,
I write in response to a letter (January 29) in which Mr. Makai Dickerson scolds residents of St Augustine Hill for objecting to the construction of a high-density transient housing complex in their neighb...
It's no wonder the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences (BIOS) feels like family to Warren Smith, most of it is family.
Warren works at BIOS with four generations of his family counting the grandchildren that are now tottering around.
His father Alfr...
New MP Mark Pettingill seems ideally suited to his new role as Shadow Attorney General.
But while he has years of experience in court both defending and prosecuting, he won't be carried away with his confidence and end up criticising Government for t...
Friday's Throne Speech - leaving aside the unscheduled visit from the members of the Bermuda Public Service Union - was always likely to be something of an anticlimax given that most Government plans had already been well flagged in the general elect...
Free child care for children under four, better health coverage for seniors and interest-free loans to buy homes were the key elements of yesterday's Throne Speech as Government seeks to carry out election promises.
And there were new pledges to intr...
This is the full text of the Throne Speech delivered by Governor Sir Richard Gozney yesterday:
Henry Clay once said:
"The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer."
Over the past several months the Government has outline...
