2002 was a year the construction industry will never forget. While the industry boomed, the Government was rocked with two of the biggest controversies in recent memory.
The Bermuda Housing Corporation
In March, the United Bermuda Party's Michael Dun...
DATE: Dec 31, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Carla Zuill
Disruptive students, rows over school uniforms, and questions over whether special needs students were having their needs met were some of the challenges the education system faced in 2002.
At the same time, there were improvements in school testing,...
DATE: Dec 31, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Carla Zuill
There is never a good time to leave something you love, as Geraldine Lambert has found out in the weeks leading up to her retirement after 38 years of working with Bermuda's mentally challenged young adults.
This week, in the quiet of the Orange Vall...
DATE: Dec 27, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
With all that is happening in the insurance industry and the increasing demand for Bermudian staff, the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) has proven to be an invaluable resource. Columns for the next two weeks will look at what the BFIS...
While I was researching an article about Turkey the other day, I came across a couple of pieces of Christmassy information that surprised me, and that might be appropriate on this date. First, believe it or not, Santa Claus came from there. He wasn't...
On October 23, 2002, the front page of The Royal Gazette, the main daily Bermuda newspaper, proudly recorded that local gangsters had been foiled by the legendary efficiency of the Bermuda Police. Fifty-six boxes of eggs had been intercepted, alleged...
The closure of drug rehab centre Fair Havens will condemn women to prison while men get the chance to says use the Drug Court programme says Opposition Women's Affairs spokeswoman Kim Young.
Many people were deeply disappointed to hear Bermuda's only...
WHAT could be termed weapons of mass distraction continue to be the favourite ordinance in the arsenals of Bermuda's politicians. Like the military's stun grendades, which produce eardrum-rupturing bangs and blinding magnesium flashes designed to dis...
GRAVITY is the most powerful force acting on our bodies, and yet most of us are rarely conscious of its presence. There is a new school of thought in the island, however, that suggests we should perhaps be more cognisant of the effect it has on our d...
"The Census cost $2.1 million over a four-year period."
- report on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing
THE 2000 Census came out last week, as you probably will have read. As a profile of Bermuda and its people, it is a document without peer. ...
