from the new Government.
And the Bermuda College's vice president of Academic and Student Affairs, Donald Peters, told The Royal Gazette it was the first time the College had received funding to bring in new faculty.
"Before we have to go around look...
The new PLP government yesterday put its money where its mouth has always been when it comes to education.
In his first Budget speech, Finance Minister Eugene Cox announced that education will receive the largest departmental allocation of new fundin...
Dear Sir, My wife and I have just returned from a first and very enjoyable visit to Bermuda. Our welcome everywhere was, like the weather, very warm. The Island is beautiful and its people charming. We hope to return.
Our experience as holidaymakers...
Canadian Pacific simply a natural progression.
"I've always been a representative of the people. This fits right in with what I always do in life. I believe in people,'' he told The Royal Gazette in his first interview since taking up the post of dir...
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...
