A group of prisoners working to get their lives back on the right track celebrated their graduation yesterday.
A total of 19 men passed either the General Education Diploma (GED) ? which encompasses reading, writing, social studies, science and mathe...
Students who fail to make the grade at Berkeley Institute will be stopped from moving up to the next year group with their classmates in a bid to improve the school?s graduation rate.
Principal Michelle Simmons said yesterday that the school was drop...
DATE: Sep 01, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
NATIONAL Drug Control Minister Wayne Perinchief yesterday announced the community will be encouraged to "Join the Voices for Recovery and to Build a Stronger, Healthier Community" as the month of September is observed as National Alcohol and Drug Rec...
Premier Alex Scott announced today that Education Minister Terry Lister has resigned from Cabinet to be replaced by former educator Neletha Butterfield.
And Randolph Horton has moved from Labour and Home Affairs to the Environment Ministry, formerly ...
Car fire in St. George under investigation
The cause of a car fire near the St. George Police Station is being investigated.
Police confirmed they were called to a reported vehicle blaze in the town at 5.45 p.m. on Tuesday
A spokesman said it appeare...
Unquestioned commitmentDear Sir,I write in response to Mrs. Ann Dunstan’s letter of 7 August and to an earlier newspaper article on the subject of The Reading Clinic’s relationship with the Department of Corrections. My aim in writing to you is not t...
The latest political buzz-word is “the Race Card”. This expression is widely used but it is unlikely that it is also widely understood. For that reason, I think many Bermudians believe that persons accused of “playing the race card” have somehow chea...
It wasn’t exactly a charitable act on the scale of a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffett, but in the Bermuda context, Laurion Burchall’s decision to return the scholarship money he was given more than a decade ago was almost as significant.
The story of M...
When Alexander Butterfield completes his university education in the US he should be well-placed to enter the world of big business, and he can thank a Bermuda-based reinsurance for giving him a helping hand to cover the cost of enrolling at Georgia ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
The death of a landscaper struck by a large branch that fell from a tree he was helping to lop has brought renewed calls for stricter controls on the training and certification of workers involved in potentially dangerous jobs.
The owners of two of t...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
