I love history, in particular the nuance that different perspectives lend to its narrative and accounts.
I remember years ago reading about the beginnings of the Bermuda Union of Teachers and the cause of its inception. At the time, my interest was ...
Online learning for prisoners is the end goal for a campaign to help bring books to Westgate jail, it has been revealed.
The news came as a book donation drive announced last week was backed by trades unions.
Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermu...
DATE: Mar 03, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The Bermudian widow of an American civil rights activist and former pastor on the island has thrown her support behind a books for prison inmates campaign.
Helen Foster said education and self-transformation had been “everything” for her husband, the...
DATE: Mar 03, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Police have warned members of the public not to circulate a video of students involved in a fight.
The video shows several students in CedarBridge Academy uniforms engaged in unruly behaviour in a classroom.
A spokesman for the Bermuda Police Servi...
DATE: Mar 02, 2022 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
At least three classes at a private school were quarantined yesterday after a coronavirus outbreak.
A Year 3 and two Year 4 classes were ordered to isolate at Saltus and a Year 11 class was ordered to follow casual contact precautions.
Deryn Lavell, ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
In the mid-1920s, St George’s businessman Henry E.A. Dowling, William Cooper MCP, W.R. Perinchief, Lorrie Williams and others met to discuss concerns regarding the quality of education afforded the children of St George’s.
They approached C.G. Gilber...
Regulations for quarantine of Covid-19 contacts in schools have been changed, the education minister revealed yesterday.
Diallo Rabain said in a letter to senior education staff that vaccinated people who tested positive for the coronavirus would hav...
DATE: Mar 02, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The Premier yesterday refused to outline which public services would be cut in the Budget axe.
David Burt signalled a “significant amount of reductions in services” in last Friday’s Budget speech.
But Mr Burt, also the finance minister, yesterday avo...
