The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs will be distributing special Emancipation Day DVDs to all Government schools in September in an effort to educate students on the history of slavery in Bermuda.
Senior Community and Cultural Affairs Of...
Former Tourism Minister David Allen's dream of tapping into the lucrative African-American market through the African Diaspora Heritage Trail is being revived.
An African Diaspora Heritage Trail Planning Conference is set to take place in Bermuda nex...
Each year, a more powerful computer comes on the scene, giving us an indication of the kind of technology that may eventually trickle down to desktops across the world.
Last year it was IBM?s BlueGene/L supercomputer, which surpassed NEC?s Earth Simu...
July 26, 2005
Dear Sir,
I read with interest the column entitled 'The Abysmal State of Our Schools', which appeared in of today's date. The writer, Christian Dunleavy, draws a parallel between the recent power outage and the state of public education...
Sandy Scott is a trailblazer for single mothers as she will be graduating at the same time as her children this year.
Ms Scott, 39, is the mother of four daughters and she will be graduating with a degree in elementary education on August 11.
Eldest ...
Government will give almost $2 million in scholarships this year. Education Minister Terry Lister last week handed out teacher training and mature students awards and Bermuda Government Scholarships.
The teacher training and mature student awards wer...
I recently received through the mail, as did most households in Bermuda, a slick document entitled ?Charting our Course? from the Sustainable Development Project which has an optimistic objective of putting together a plan for Bermuda?s long-term fut...
House and field slaves
July 25, 2005
Dear Sir,
When I last wrote to The Royal Gazette, it was intentionally written in a riddle, but on this occasion, I shall be succinct.
This government has the slave mentality by managing to separate the house slav...
By the numbers
July 27, 2005
Dear Sir,
Some numbers to ponder:
$113.1 million: the amount of money in circulation this Cup match. $4,524: the average per household (25,000). $1,740: the average per person cash in hand to spend on food, drink, clothes...
PHOTOGRAPHER Sarah Hughes recently spent a week in Bolivia, her initial aim to capture the crisis faced by the Third World nation as a means of making the world more aware.
The experience so moved her, however, that on her return to Bermuda she start...
