the classroom, delighting in every new detail. In an instant, her world had been transformed -- and all because "Dr. Bill'' had slipped a pair of glasses onto her nose.
Eleven-year-old Ashawnte, who suffers from multiple disabilities and uses a wheel...
found themselves behind bars.
The bars may not be steel. Nor intended to imprison. But nevertheless they mark a form of tyranny -- that of the recession.
The 12 youngsters are innocent victims of Government cutbacks.
For three years, between the ages...
blame the Government and the community for their wrongdoings.
And sentencing Darren Sinclair Edwards to three years in prison yesterday the Chief Justice said that the defendant was healthy and intelligent enough to make a living without crime.
Edwar...
set up in memory of the late American mental health lecturer Mrs. Alberta Smith Jacoby.
Five-times married Mrs. Jacoby -- described as an intellectual giant -- played a key role in setting up social programmes throughout the Island.
She worked closel...
"hard'' drugs, a visiting expert has claimed.
Drug counsellor Mr. Paul Dromazos said it was wrong to say users of hard drugs like cocaine were more "disturbed'' than marijuana users.
He admitted that consequences for addiction could be worse with har...
with his child was bunkered by a security guard.
But dad was soon driven to even greater fury -- when he complained to bureaucrats.
They hurled at him a barmy bagful of eyebrow-raising regulations and rules.
And among the more mind-boggling -- the ga...
Commissioner when he warned The Royal Gazette that the Island was about to be swamped with illegal drugs, returned here last week to find that his prediction had come depressingly true.
"Now I see that, proportionally, Bermuda has the largest addicti...
media, that the focus is being removed from the AIDS crisis. Sometimes when media attention shifts away from a problem, especially a problem as frightening as AIDS, the public is only too happy to move its focus.
Unfortunately, AIDS is a problem whic...
life.
But not so for the first time buyers of a small housing development in Redcoat Lane, St. George's.
The six three-bedroom properties are the last stage of a special Government project to help people get on the housing ladder.
Built in traditiona...
students already in the schools, the Opposition spokesman for Education said last night.
Miss Jennifer Smith MP said she agreed with the criticisms voiced last week by former Bermuda College president Dr. Archie Hallett, who lambasted the system for ...
