Teachers were locked in pay talks with Government last night after agreeing to return to work today after two days of strikes which shut all public schools.
However their work to rule campaign will continue as they put a Tuesday deadline on negotiati...
IT could have easily been dubbed "Bermuda Day" when the festivities marking the 134th Annual Commencement Exercises of St. John's University took place on Sunday in Queen's, New York.
Some 1,500 undergraduates and graduate students received their deg...
FIFTY years after the US Supreme Court concluded, on May 17, 1954, that "separate but equal" schools were inherently unequal, Bermudian educators and activists generally take the view that societal progress in the intervening years has led to the sub...
Jason Binns a friendly and ambitious young man was the Island?s second road fatality of the year. He was 22.
Jason died after suffering head and internal injuries during a single vehicle accident in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Jason?s siste...
Education Minister Terry Lister?s continuing silence on the St. George?s Prep decision has led to serious questions being raised about the likelihood of Government honouring the arbitration in the teachers? pay dispute.
Both the United Bermuda Party ...
Teachers would love the chance to punch a clock or a have a time and motion study to prove they are working far beyond their paid hours, their union leader said last night.
Bermuda Union of Teachers general secretary Mike Charles hit back at Governm...
Government came under fire yesterday for bringing no business to Senate.
The meeting broke up after just 55 minutes after the motion to adjourn and congratulatory and obituary speeches.
United Bermuda Party Senator Leonard Santucci said: ?We?ve spent...
Angry teachers could vote today to carry on their strike despite Government referring their pay dispute to binding arbitration which makes further action illegal.
The move follows yesterday?s sick-out which closed around 40 Government schools and had...
Students who spoke to yesterday said they support the industrial action taken by public school teachers, but are worried about having to attend classes this summer to make up for lost time.
Students at the Berkeley Institute also expressed fears over...
May 11, 2004
Dear Sir,
Listening to the talk shows I am shocked at the deafening silence and denial from members of the PLP when their people sitting in Parliament make so many bad and disastrous decisions that hurts and affect the whole Island.
Sad....
