The benefits Bermuda would get from taking up associate membership of Caricom far outweigh the $98,000 the Island would pay, the organisation's general secretary Edwin Carrington said last night.
He told a public meeting in St. Paul's Centennial Hal...
IN the extended afterglow of its 1998 election victory it began to appear the Progressive Labour Party's fiscal policies were about as pink as the pages of the business world's house paper .
The mask of market-friendly fiscal responsibility could now...
You see him here, you see him there, you see him almost everywhere, but not everyone knows his name. Most call him 'The Vegetable Man', but so long as his customers keep coming, Robert Sousa doesn't mind at all. In fact, he is such a familiar sight a...
Hester had to raise her glass to former teachers' union leader and PLP Senator Milton Scott earlier this month.
Your columnist joined the hordes at the Wine Rack on Front Street to snap up some bargain booze after the store announced it was moving. N...
Former Financial Secretary Mansfield H. (Jim) Brock was awarded an honorary doctorate of Commerce, from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the convocation ceremony on May 24, 2002.
Brock, a community leader, was chosen to receive the ...
Government has denied it has done a U-turn on its home school regulations - instead saying it has offered to relax its rules on student numbers until a new policy is eventually introduced.
Acting Chief Education Officer Donna Daniels said Government ...
As Premier Jennifer Smith acknowledged in the House of Assembly on Friday night, the fact that so many MPs spoke in the debate on the Bermuda Educators Council Act illustrates just how importantly our elected representatives view education.
While the...
The following is the conclusion to Friday, July 12's, debate on public education in the House of Assembly.
Government backbencher Delaey Robinson responded to the UBP's objections to the Bermuda Educators Council Act 2002, saying they were confusing ...
Whip into shape
July 6, 2002
Dear Sir,
Perhaps due to the ethical malaise that currently bedevils this society, I am not surprised that there has been no public discussion over MP Ottiwell Simmons decision to abstain from voting on a recent piece of ...
Opposition MPs have claimed that growing numbers of children in home schooling is indicative of a failing public education system.
During the debate on the Education Amendment Act 2002 in Parliament on Friday, Opposition House Leader Maxwell Burgess ...
