Company and its employees into a full-blown savings and loan company, Gibbons Deposit Company holds 15 percent of the sector's market share. Doug Ashbury talked to managing director Mr. James Gibbons about the firm's recent growth and its future.
Whe...
By Paul Egan As work begins on a $40-million senior secondary school at Prospect, parents are expressing little confidence in the restructuring of Bermuda's education system.
And Shadow Education Minister Ms Jennifer Smith said it was "backwards'' f...
Mr. Don Grearson who resigned last month.
Ms Parker, who has worked at The Royal Gazette for the last six years as a senior reporter and sub editor, became news editor effective January 1. She is the first Bermudian news editor at the newspaper.
Ms P...
The National Drug Commission's plan to test schoolchildren for substance abuse would not threaten human rights, chairman Mr. Mansfield (Jim) Brock said yesterday.
Mr. Brock stressed the NDC was not recommending mandatory drug testing.
Instead, the Co...
Russian health care still lags decades behind that of other Western countries.
Under-reported AIDS cases, widespread use of abortion and an increase in venereal diseases were some of the findings by Bermudian, Mrs. Marisa Sharpe on a recent trip to t...
Berkeley Institute will be closed to new students for two years, starting in 1997, Education Minister the Hon. Clarence Terceira said yesterday.
The halt to admission of new students will coincide with a $13-million to $14-million building project at...
By Danny Sinopoli Today's teachers must become the "saviours'' of a generation of students that has been led astray by television, a long-time educator who became the first Bermudian to be made a Dame of the British Empire said yesterday.
"Teachers ...
yesterday.
Testing was part of a multi-pronged attack on substance abuse recommended by the National Drug Commission.
But the Bermuda Union of Teachers and the National Parent-Teacher Association have urged caution.
The union's general secretary, Sen...
By Patricia Calnan Although psychiatrists advise against them, friends tend to ridicule them, and even if we don't have too much faith in our ability to keep them, most of us make them.
We have, of course, just stepped into a brand New Year and the ...
Jobs are there for the taking, for the price of doing your homework and presenting yourself properly.
This is the message young people went away with from last week's second annual Career Track conference. The conference was organised jointly by the ...
