When Salimata Badji Knight was five-years-old she was held down in the woods near her home by people from her own community and horribly mutilated in a bid to ensure she didn’t grow up to be an unfaithful wife. Earlier this month, the campaigner agai...
People would have the power to force binding referendums under a United Bermuda Party Government.
That was one of the main proposals outlined at a UBP meeting in Hamilton on good governance.
UBP Leader Wayne Furbert and Deputy Leader John Barritt tol...
A multi-million dollar renovation of Whitney Institute Middle School has moved a step closer after a scheme to renovate and rebuild much of it was given planning approval.
Now the question to be decided is where the expected $35 million to make the i...
DATE: Oct 30, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
A multi-million dollar renovation of Whitney Institute Middle School has moved a step closer after a scheme to renovate and rebuild much of it was given planning approval.
Now the question to be decided is where the expected $35 million to make the i...
DATE: Oct 30, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
It is in the young people of Bermuda who are the Island?s true wealth and resource and it is only by investing in them through educating and training that the Island can provide economic empowerment to its people.
That was the message delivered by fo...
DATE: Oct 30, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
NEW YORK — With the cost of tuition and fees soaring, parents face a daunting task in trying to figure out how to finance their children’s college educations.The College Board, which tracks college pricing trends, reported earlier this week that tuit...
Governor Sir John Vereker accepted Alex Scott's resignation and swore in Ewart Brown as Premier this morning, capping a weekend of sweeping change for the ruling Progressive Labour Party.
Dr. Brown's first order of business has been the installation ...
Three years ago at Devonshire Rec, Ewart Brown took on Alex Scott for the leadership of the PLP, but blew it.
He was sunk by one telling phrase which has been a millstone around his neck ever since: we had to mislead you.
It was meant to explain to d...
With the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party now settled, the first job of victor Dr. Ewart Brown is clear — to pull together a governing party traumatised by two leadership fights in little more than three years.
It is said that a house divid...
Unity. That was the word on everybody’s lips last night, as it was confirmed that Ewart Brown had emerged victorious in another divisive PLP leadership battle.
As the curtain came down on a fortnight of behind-the-scenes political deals, feverish lob...
