The United Bermuda Party is calling for a different voting system to be put back on the political agenda.
Acting Opposition Leader Grant Gibbons said it was important to keep an open mind on proportional representation (PR).
Under that system the num...
Progressive Labour Party members have attempted to peddle influence on the coat-tails of the 1998 General Election victory, Premier Jennifer Smith said last night.
And she admitted that the new Government had bitten off more than it could chew in pla...
DATE: Oct 26, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
tackle the illiteracy problem.
A recent article in The Financial Times reported on two voluntary reading programmes aimed at turning around that city's low literacy rates -- and cutting crime at the same time.
Washington DC may be a very different pl...
for Bermuda's Elderly.
The conference is to be held on November 4 in the Harbour Room at Number One Shed.
Sir John, who chairs the commitee responsible for overseeing Bermuda's participation in the United Nations International Year of Older Persons, ...
For almost 20 years it has been the heart and soul of a community.
It has been a place for recreation, an after-school haven for students and a bridge to broaden educational horizons.
Now the Centre on Angle Street, will be a place where those burden...
on Family Empowerment.
Mr. Clark's work in transforming an inner city public school won him nationwide recognition in the United States. He has been featured as the cover story for Time Magazine, two 60 Minutes profiles and the Warner Brothers film L...
on education when she takes up the post of Permanent Secretary in the Education Ministry next month.
The appointment comes on the retirement of long time educator Dr. Marion Robinson.
An official announcement of the appointment is slated for tomorrow...
I am writing to express my absolute disgust with the self-absorbed whining of Bermuda's teachers. Every day there is a new report on the illiteracy epidemic which is crippling our children (and country), while they mill around complaining about worki...
Bermuda College and the local and international business communities, concluded here last week.
Liz Ward, of Executive Choice Ltd., who had primary responsibility for the organisation of the conference at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Inistitute...
Certainly one can only hope that he is successful. However, one cannot but wonder what are we going to do about all of the functional illiterates that have already graduated.
We have created an increasingly sophisticated economy for the benefit of "g...
