headquarters said: "It's the economy, stupid.'' In Bermuda in 1994, the sign would read: "It's crime, stupid.'' All other issues -- the economy, education, Independence and health care to name a few -- have been pushed to the back of people's minds...
Government came under fire in the Senate on Wednesday for not moving quickly enough in its drive against drugs and alcohol.
Sen. Terry Lister (PLP) said there was a proposal to hire an expert consultant on drugs and alcohol in April, 1995.
"I can't b...
The Education Ministry is not responsible for educating students who are expelled, even if they are younger than 16, Education and Human Affairs Minister Jerome Dill said yesterday.
But children are only expelled from school as a last resort, Mr. Dil...
debating trophy last weekend.
The three-strong team notched up a narrow victory against Warwick Academy, debating against the motion that "this house believes that television is an invention to be regretted''.
And Nicholas Pacheco, Jennifer Rhind and...
they often forget why they were upset in the first place, a Government senator said yesterday.
Sen. Yvette Swan (UBP) made these allegations during the Upper House's first session devoted to debating the Throne Speech.
She was the third senator to sp...
Children's Trio stages The Princess and the Handmaiden.
The second presentation of this year's Kidfest -- a series of performances specially selected to bring the very best in children's theatre to Bermuda -- is an adaptation of Grimms' The Little Go...
Bermuda's response to people coping with AIDS was "disgraceful'' saying the majority of residents opened their arms to HIV carriers.
He believed there were only "pockets'' of people who "shamefully'' discriminated against carriers of the virus.
And t...
cadets.
Shadow Labour Minister Mr. Alex Scott voiced alarm at the high number of rookie Policemen who quit the Force. He claimed their survival rate over the last 15 years was just 36 percent.
"We have to review the whole process of bringing Police c...
General secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers Sen. Milton Scott said it is important that teachers, as well as their unions, be consulted in relation to the establishment of community-based school boards.
Sen. Scott was responding to statements ...
Students with drug problems may be sent to residential treatment homes overseas, Education Minister the Hon. Clarence Terceira said yesterday.
Dr. Terceira said it may prove less costly to pay for such treatment than to eventually imprison drug addic...
