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...
TEN Bermudian high school students are in the middle of a one-week visit to one of the world's top hospitals to explore the possibilities of a career in health care.
The tour of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and other health care-oriented inst...
DATE: Jul 29, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
THE young Bermudian "venturers" who left the island three weeks ago for the experience of a lifetime in Malaysia have been attached to nine separate projects which take in the marine parks, villages and mountains of the exotic state of Sabah.
Raleigh...
FAILING the admittedly unlikely privatisation solution to our most besetting problem, the wretched state of public education, the next best solution is to completely revamp the way we educate our youth in our public schools.
If this were to involve t...
: Well, I am delighted that our good friend Jim is enjoying the cricket at Lord's in London, and I hope that I can assuage some of the concerns that he expressed in your article. One of the elements that I would like to emphasise is the partnership b...
My mother made me join,? said Katherine, in between directing the younger children in a capture the flag exercise. ?I didn?t go much for the first year, but after I started going I decided I liked it and it was cool. It kept me out of trouble. On a F...
