Having just watched 'Fast Food Nation', based on the book by Eric Schlosser, I'm all about vegetarian options. I spent the whole 114 minutes absolutely horrified as the ins and outs of the evolving fast food industry were dramatised and exposed. I kn...
BIU president Chris Furbert says plans are well in hand for the union's 26th annual Labour Day Banquet at Fairmont Southampton Resort on Saturday of next week. The banquet will be the usual gala event.
Guest speaker will be Congressman Bennie G. Thom...
BERMUDIAN journalist, author , artist, child care advocate and educat Jocelyn Kay (Motyer) Raymond Read died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on August 13. She was 77.
A former Mid-Ocean News journalist, Mrs. Raymond-Read was born in Paget on March 30, 1930
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Public school teachers were handed pay rises yesterday after two years without an increase.
The award they got — 4.5 percent for last year, which will be paid in back pay, and four percent for the forthcoming academic year — was rejected by the Bermu...
A businesswoman aims to empower others at a leadership conference next month.
Judy E. Ming grew up in Devonshire but moved to Washington DC 22 years ago to pursue her education. She is now the president and managing director of NJI Ltd., and lives in...
CedarBridge Academy remains safe for children to return after the summer holidays, according to vice-chairman of governors Neville Tyrrell.
Work is continuing following the outbreak of mould which forced the closure of the school for a $4 million cle...
DATE: Aug 24, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
The Bank of Bermuda Foundation yesterday announced that seven local charities and schools received significant donations from foundation in the second quarter of 2007, totalling close to three quarters of a million dollars.
The follow schools and cha...
FRIENDS and family are recalling the remarkable life of journalist, author, art historian, human rights advocate and educator Jocelyn (Motyer) Raymond-Read, who has died at her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 77.
Born in Paget in 1930, Mrs...
The Ministry of Education last night dismissed claims new appointments could push its media team's combined salary to around $250,000 taxpayers' money.Acting Permanent Secretary Ellen-Kate Horton said new Communications Consultant Scott Simmons would...
DATE: Aug 23, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Public school teachers will today learn what pay rise they are to get after two years without an increase.
The decision by an arbitration panel called in to resolve a long-running dispute between Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) and the Ministry of Ed...
DATE: Aug 23, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
