Fifteen Bermudian participants in a graduate trainee initiative have completed a career readiness programme.
The CRP is facilitated through the Department of Workforce Development in conjunction with industry partners, Performance Solutions and AB Co...
The Carifta Games have been put back by a further month, it was confirmed yesterday.
Having already been postponed from last April because of the global pandemic, and rescheduled from this April to July, the popular youth athletics event will now be ...
DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Track & Field | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
Tributes have been paid by the island’s teaching union to Dr Joseph Christopher, a former Commissioner of Education, who died earlier this week.
In a statement, the Bermuda Union of Teachers described Dr Christopher as a “man of immense intellectual ...
The Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses in Bermuda is a noble pursuit, certainly a needed inquiry longed for by many, given the history of irregular property acquisitions in the mid-20th century.
One would recall when this motion was firs...
An exhibition designed to highlight the horrors of the Holocaust is to open tomorrow.
The event was timed for the run-up to Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Shoah: Understanding the Holocaust Through Art & Artifacts, organised by the Jewish Community o...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Timeline: 25 years of reforming public education
1996: Education Act passes and middle schools are introduced by the United Bermuda Party government.
December 1998: The Progressive Labour Party wins power.
May 2007: The Hopkins R...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The vast majority of the $9 million budget reduction for the Ministry of Education was achieved through the defunding of posts and government austerity measures, the House of Assembly was told yesterday.
The overall budget for the Ministry of Educati...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Yesterday, The Royal Gazette
profiled the history of four primary schools slated for closure under Government’s education reform proposals. Today, we feature the other five which could shut. Sarah Lagan reports.
Elliot Primary School – 1846...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Interesting this: there is talk elsewhere that we may be on the verge of another Roaring Twenties — like that which followed the 1918 flu pandemic. Well, we can but hope; and note, I underscore elsewhere. Such talk is apparently fuelled by the belief...
DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: John Barritt
