has been critical of a push toward privatisation of public services in Bermuda. For some time now there have been suggestions that Government should divest itself of a good deal of what is now run with civil servants. Mr.
Blakeney has claimed that pe...
The Bermuda Cricket Board of Control desperately need to open their eyes to the importance of developing young cricketers to replenish the sport.
So said Bermuda Schools Sports Federation Administrator Clint Smith, who added that too much emphasis ha...
DATE: Apr 19, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
An increasing number of students have been suspended from the public school system.
According to Education Department statistics released to The Royal Gazette yesterday, 316 youngsters were suspended in the 1993/94 school year, 368 the next year, and...
ATLANTA -- Finance Minister Grant Gibbons yesterday gave US business people insight into one facet of Bermuda's success that Americans find hard to comprehend.
Corporate executives, faced with state insurance regulators that are often in an adversari...
released before the end of the school term.
Education Minister Jerome Dill promised this when contacted about the report.
"I have it,'' he said. "And once my colleagues look at it in Cabinet, it will be released.'' Associate Professor of educational...
two by-elections was yesterday overshadowed by a row over PLP media relations.
Opposition Jennifer Smith was accused of ignoring calls from the media for comment and of gagging her Shadow Cabinet.
Media representatives at the press conference complai...
DATE: Apr 18, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
to an historic end at National Stadium with Berkeley Institute again running away with the team title.
Led by a record shattering showing from Richard Walcott combined with the exploits of Patrina Swan and Gina Cann, the Pembroke school retained the ...
DATE: Apr 18, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
select their nominees to contest the seats vacated by former Premiers David Saul and Sir John Swan. Here, the candidates in the two constituencies say why they think they should represent their party.
Devonshire South Michael Dunkley When Dr. Saul ...
On a day when Tariq Hewey equalled the 100 metres record, officials blasted conditions at National Stadium for the Secondary Schools Track and Field Championships.
Hewey, a Warwick Secondary School senior, clocked a time of 10.7 seconds during the mo...
DATE: Apr 17, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Bean
For the second time in two days, education officials yesterday moved to dismiss parents' claims that public high schools were in a state of crisis.
In a press conference days after parents complained to The Royal Gazette about a lack of discipline, c...
