Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons yesterday challenged Government to get on with the job.
And he warned that the lack of legislation brought forward since the PLP victory in November could be an indicator of a do-nothing Budget from the PLP.
Dr. ...
DATE: Feb 19, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
One of Bermuda's leading education officials yesterday called on parents to join the drive to help children read and write.
Languages expert Dr. Norma Hendrickson, a former teacher at Sandys Secondary and headteacher at Prospect Secondary School, spo...
great-grandfather Joseph Henry Thomas, a prominent black Bermudian in the 19th Century.
Born 1823 Died: April 29, 1908 (at the age of 85 years) 1844: Member of the Founding Committee of the Industrious Man's Library `for the Benefit of the Black an...
Bermudian slave woman, Mary Prince, was an extraordinary person.
Born in 1788 at Brackish Pond, Bermuda, she is famous for being the first black British woman to escape from the abomination of slavery and publish a record of her experiences.
Her stor...
Samuel David Robinson (1848-1920) and Elmira (Thomas) Robinson (1854-1940).
She died in 1973.
She received her early education at the Bermuda Collegiate Institute and the Berkeley Institute where she was a very young member of the Berkeley's first cl...
It was not such a long time ago -- in the 1930s. A young child, growing up and reaching out, was denied admittance to the Bermuda Public Library -- because he was black.
In 1985, the same young boy, long since grown to manhood, returned to that libra...
That famous day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers stood firm on the bridge at Selma was my birthday. March 7th, 1965; I was eighteen, an a level history student, and already awake to the politics of my community.
Our curriculum dealt ...
Money to help unemployed Bid to attract local Policemen Investment in education Tomorrow's first-ever PLP Budget will chart a `steady as she goes' course for Bermuda.
And there will be no new taxes -- and likely little change in most existing ones...
DATE: Feb 18, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
in teaching techniques this weekend.
A guest speaker from the prestigious Reading Styles Institute in New York will be on the Island to present a seminar on identifying children's different learning styles.
The method of teaching recognises that diff...
school year.
Mr. Rowell, who was appointed to Saltus in 1995, has accepted the post of principal of the British School in The Netherlands (BSN) from next September.
In a statement released yesterday, Mr. Rowell said: "I shall miss Saltus and Bermuda ...
