HE recent announcement by Government that graduation figures for students in the public school system have now fallen below the 50 percent level, shocking and disturbing as this news was, probably did not come as a surprise to most Bermudians. For it...
Former Appleby Spurling Bailhache partner Jerome Dill is to join post-Katrina start-up reinsurance company Validus Holdings.
He will step into his new role with the Bermuda company the day after he officially leaves the law firm after a 21-year spell...
Pupils expelled from The Berkeley Institute will not be excluded from the public school system, Education Minister Randy Horton pledged last night.
Earlier this week The Royal Gazette reported that three students were expelled following a violent inc...
A top-performing teacher has picked up a $1,000 award for her efforts in and out of the classroom.
Tanisha Simone Edwards, a primary four teacher at Saltus Grammar School, was awarded the prize by the Heritage International Scholarship Trust Foundati...
DATE: Feb 02, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Royal Gazette has obtained a document that sheds new light on the rift last week between Education Minister Randy Horton and the Association of School Principals (ASP) — a spat which has now apparently been repaired.
At the height of the dispute,...
IT'S been a tough few months for the island's education system, with a critical report into financial irregularities at the Bermuda College being presented before the House of Assembly and an inquiry still ongoing into how a mould problem at CedarBri...
Bermuda?s tourism industry is in ?secular decline?, unrelated to the damage caused to it by Hurricane Fabian or the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US, according to global financial analysts Standard & Poor?s (S&P).
And the agency says the I...
DATE: Feb 01, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
With the prospect of a major hotel development for the Southlands Estate being constructed over the next three years, the time has come for Government to address the issue of who is going to help construct the hotel resort and who will ultimately be ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Bermuda’s tourism industry is in “secular decline”, unrelated to the damage caused to it by Hurricane Fabian or the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US, according to global financial analysts Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
And the agency says the I...
DATE: Feb 01, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
NEW YORK (AP) — President Bush took aim yesterday at lavish salaries and bonuses for corporate executives, standing on Wall Street to issue a sharp warning for corporate boards to “step up to their responsibilities” and tie compensation packages to p...
