The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has written to the Minister of Environment to express concerns over plans to have a circus with captive animals come to Bermuda.
DNA Entertainment plans to hold shows on April 14-16, entitled ?Anim...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, the saying goes, and Renee Webb certainly seems to be out to prove it.
The former Tourism and Telecommunications Minister laid into her Government again on Monday night, this time concerning education.
She said...
Opposition ministers demanded to know why Government was not recruiting more male teachers during a House of Assembly debate on education. said just 18 percent of those teaching in the public school system were men and that that figure was largely un...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
All appeals against the suspension of students from public school were quashed in the last year, the Education Minister has revealed.
told the House of Assembly on Monday that parents appealed the suspensions for bad behaviour ? six from senior schoo...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Government is not taking seriously the problem of children being sent to school without breakfast, it was alleged this week.Shadow Race Relations Minister told in the House of Assembly: ?I don?t think you understand the depth of this problem.?
His U...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Teachers angrily hit back last night at a Government backbencher?s claims that they are failing the Island?s public school students.
Michael Charles, general secretary of Bermuda Union of Teachers, described former minister Renee Webb?s comments in t...
DATE: Mar 08, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A carpenter giving evidence in the $1.3 million fraud case against former Bermuda Housing Corporation property officer Terrence Smith yesterday continued to outline how Smith benefited from the alleged con.
Self-employed carpenter Steven Barbosa spen...
Public school students? attainment levels have not risen in the past 13 years despite the introduction of new tests, according to the Shadow Education Minister.
Neville Darrell told the House of Assembly yesterday that the Terra Nova test which pupil...
DATE: Mar 07, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Belco out at sea?February 24, 2006
Dear Sir,Thank you for publishing my preceding letter titled “Unprepared, Vulnerable” on electricity surcharge billing and (lack of) forward-looking energy policy in Bermuda. Those who thought the business of “hope ...
Belco out at sea?
February 24, 2006
Dear Sir,
Thank you for publishing my preceding letter titled ?Unprepared, Vulnerable? on electricity surcharge billing and (lack of) forward-looking energy policy in Bermuda. Those who thought the business of ?hop...
