The independent review into Bermuda’s failing public education system cost almost a quarter of a million dollars, it has emerged.
Education Minister Randy Horton, in answer to parliamentary questions from former Opposition leader Grant Gibbons, revea...
Premier Ewart Brown’s “lavish” lifestyle last night came under fire after he and his entourage spent more than $280,000 of taxpayers’ money on overseas trips in a ten-month period.
Dr. Brown racked up a $23,000 hotel bill during a one-week stay in Lo...
DATE: May 21, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
AS college graduation season comes to a close, the newly anointed degree holders will finally have to face a new reality — life with hefty education debt. By the time they graduate, about two-thirds of students at four-year colleges and universities ...
An ill-tempered debate at the close of business in the House of Assembly saw more than the usual amount of highly-charged rhetoric bounce off the walls of the chamber.
Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson started off by re-igniting her long-running ...
Bermuda’s laws have to change to protect the rights of learning challenged students, a learning support teacher recently told a Bermudians Overcoming Learning Disabilities (BOLD) meeting.
Teacher Phyllis Harshaw, who is herself visually impaired, was...
Grant Gibbons is clearly, like all of the Island’s politicians, in election mode right now. Newly appointed as Shadow Education Minister, he has a lot to say about how he would improve Bermuda’s in-crisis public school system — and plenty of blame to...
DATE: May 21, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A RECENTLY released survey on women and retirement says that today's young women and their mothers have different ideas about savings. The report goes by the snappy title of "It's Not Your Mother's Retirement: The MetLife Study of Women and Generatio...
MORE wind, no change, Mr. Editor, last week on the House on the Hill. Ok, Ok, colleagues, the assessment might be a mite harsh, but there was after all only the one item of business for the day: some amendments to the Public Service Superannuation Ac...
Teachers have branded an education review which called for an overhaul of schools as “unfair”.
Members of the Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) revealed a mixed reaction to the Hopkins Report when it held a general meeting. According to acting union pr...
An act bringing in payroll tax breaks for businesses in North Hamilton was passed with all party support yesterday in a bid to spread wealth opportunities to those previously marginalised in the economy.
However the Opposition harried the Government ...
