Father Joseph Bragotti had just finished talking about his harrowing years as a missionary in Uganda ? years in which he was alternately shot at, ambushed and arrested. And so the question was put to him directly: ?Were you ever afraid??
He paused fo...
A teacher alleged to have hit a young girl at a special needs school has broken her silence, telling she feels that she has been ?unrelentingly persecuted? by the school and a number of parents.
Laura Delgaty spoke out as the controversy over her con...
Not long before his death this past April, Pope John Paul II issued the annual papal mission catechesis. In that message for this year?s World Mission Sunday, Catholics are reminded: ?We who nourish ourselves with the Body and Blood of the crucified ...
In a hard hitting speech last night Premier Alex Scott warned there could soon be more Cabinet sackings if Ministers fail to perform.
The bombshell came after the recent axing of Works and Engineering and Housing Minister Ashfield DeVent who was repl...
THE Bermuda Hospitals Board is to offer free diabetes tests in a bid to increase public awareness about the killer disease.
November is World Diabetes Month and the theme of this year's campaign is foot care. Christine Johnson, a nurse educator at th...
Knowledge is power, the late John Eric Patterson (Jep) Stewart said when he introduced the concept of group health insurance to Bermuda in the early 1950s.
Mr. Stewart, the first managing director of the Argus Group, died on October 16 of respiratory...
Progressive Labour Party supporters who back the bar on Opposition hopeful Gina Spence Farmer sitting in the Senate have short memories according to the Bermuda Public Services Union.
General Secretary Edward Ball has pointed out that for years the P...
Cruise ship suggestions
October 11, 2005
Dear Sir,
Please allow me more of your space in your valued newspaper to discuss some "food for thought" on placing Mega cruise ships in Hamilton, or St. George's harbours.
The entrance into St. George's throu...
The dictionary defines ?talent? as ?a special aptitude or faculty?, and ?explosion? as a ?sudden outbreak of feelings?. Put them together and what do you get?
An event packed with Bermudian singers, musicians, dancers and poets presenting a diverse p...
Deaf school children have access to better services after a restructure of the way they are educated, according to Minister of Education Terry Lister.
Parents of hearing-impaired students who met with the Minister in January had raised concerns about...
