trying to get into two of the Island's top academic schools this September.
Despite Government's abolition of the controversial 11-plus exam and its promise to have all secondary schools offer an equal curriculum by September, parents of 75 percent o...
upcoming general election, campaign co-chairman Mr. Terry Lister said yesterday.
Citing the 1989 campaign, when Shadow Education Minister Miss Jennifer Smith pulled an upset victory as the sole PLP candidate in St. George's North, Mr.
Lister said: "I...
contest ever.
At the Bermuda Referees Association's prize presentation held at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club on Saturday night Simons narrowly beat out Frank Drayton to win the award. Both are Class II referees.
The pair were among a short l...
funding of Bermuda College.
Government was recently rapped by Shadow Education Minister Ms Jennifer Smith for failing to complete any education scheme.
She said there had been a ten-year pause before construction began at Stonington Campus.
And she c...
following an unprecedented sporting tour of England.
Over 40 youngsters made the trip which saw the Pembroke school contest English opposition in no less than six different sports, including soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, rugby and netball.
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refurbished Gift Shop, which features light oak panelling, spot lighting and a computerised stock control system. Executive members of the Bermuda Zoological Society and past and present Gift Shop staff gathered on April 1 for the store's official op...
get. They really don't want to be treated differently, and when they do something well they want to be praised.'' And if the new national director of the Special Olympics -- whose words these are -- has anything to do with it, Bermuda's mentally cha...
has received a lukewarm reaction from parents.
In a three-page letter signed by the Premier, the Education and Finance Ministers and sent out to all PTAs last week, Government said it was hoping to speed work on school buildings that will be critical...
happy'' with the standards attained by the many Bermudian students who attend the Nova Scotia institution.
Dr. James Perkin, who retires in June, was in Bermuda for a brief visit last week, during which he gave his farewell address to the Bermuda bra...
its bid to calm anger over school cuts.
She claimed its letter to Parent Teachers Associations was unlikely to satisfy parents.
And she rapped Government for not finding cash for text books.
"Parents are the ones who have to provide the funds,'' she ...
