Governor Sir John Vereker has called on Government to invest "more effectively" in public education ? in a speech which also appeared to criticise controversial Cabinet plans to build a new hospital in the Botanical Gardens.
The Queen's representativ...
DATE: Sep 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The former First Lady of Ghana stepped in as a last-minute replacement panellist during the Second African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference in Hamilton and spoke of the importance of family and particularly that the African-rooted tradition of comm...
DATE: Sep 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Governor Sir John Vereker raised concerns about the low number of students graduating in his speech ? but official results for the Island?s two senior schools this year have still not been made public.
A Government spokesman told that the results wer...
DATE: Sep 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Monetary Authority chairwoman and chief executive Cheryl-Ann Lister yesterday announced she was stepping down from both posts, saying a change in the law splitting the two positions made it an opportune time to resign.
Mrs. Lister, who has be...
A few days into his Raleigh International experience in Malaysia, 18-year-old Anthony Leevon Swan wanted to go home. He was sick of sleeping under mosquito netting, trekking miles every day and eating tuna fish and crackers for dinner.
Anthony was on...
Crew of the Spirit of Bermuda had to endure more poor weather as they battled the elements on the ship's maiden voyage to the Island.
Chairman of the Bermuda Sloop Foundation, Allan Burland said winds were blowing up to 25 knots as a low front passed...
Go back to schoolSeptember 21, 2006
Dear Sir,Go back to School Fly-Poster! As many of your readers will be, I feel compelled to write in response to the recent fly-posters which have been left around town. I did not receive one of the posters as I ri...
Go back to school
September 21, 2006
Dear Sir,
Go back to School Fly-Poster! As many of your readers will be, I feel compelled to write in response to the recent fly-posters which have been left around town. I did not receive one of the posters as I ...
A former chairman of the National Training Board (NTB) has given his support to the quango?s executive officer, who has been temporarily removed from his post while a financial investigation is carried out.
Nalton Brangman, who served as chairman bet...
DATE: Sep 28, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Hollywood actor Danny Glover is probably the most recognisable star at the second African Diaspora Heritage Trail conference which begins today.
He is due to be joined by a Nobel Prize Laureate, a former African nation president and two UNESCO repres...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
