A school counsellor who headed the Bermuda National Parent Teachers Association was a powerful voice for the island’s schools.
Marian Askia, a counsellor at East End Primary and St David’s Preschool, was also president of the Amputee Association of B...
DATE: Oct 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Obituaries | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Women chosen for a charity-run course to help them change their lives completed it with new qualifications, increased confidence and employment.
Success stories from the Transformational Support Services programme even included the launch of a new bu...
DATE: Oct 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
The winner of a teacher of the year award will be revealed later this month.
The Bermuda Education Network’s Outstanding Teacher Award will come from a field of ten already announced.
Becky Ausenda, the executive director of the BEN, said teachers ha...
DATE: Oct 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tah-Mi Williams has been selected by the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club as a trainee manager in the hotel’s leadership programme.
Mr Williams will spend the 18-month training working with each team that contributes to the hotel’s food and beverage ...
Students of Warwick Academy were given Covid-19 Lateral Flow Tests on Saturday as part of a programme designed to get them back to in-person learning.
The tests were distributed between 9am and 3pm and the students tested themselves last night ahead...
DATE: Oct 04, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The task of regrouping after a devastating pandemic that has ravaged countries around the world with widespread death, taking a heavy toll on economies, and creating a nightmare for education systems has been a Herculean one.
Children have been unabl...
DATE: Oct 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Al Seymour
At least 80 per cent of pupils at every public school must consent to coronavirus saliva tests before classrooms can reopen, the Minister of Education announced yesterday.
Diallo Rabain added a minimum of 80 per cent of a school’s population had to h...
DATE: Oct 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Some healthcare professionals are perpetuating myths that home remedies are able to treat Covid-19, according to Bermuda’s Chief Medical Officer.
And he urged them to honour their Hippocratic oath – to “do no harm”.
Ayo Oyinloye was speaking during a...
DATE: Oct 01, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A historic Bermudian tree which was the oldest living exhibit in a Scottish botanic garden has at last come down.
Workmen moved in to a Victorian glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, home to the palmetto – scientific name Sabal Bermud...
DATE: Oct 01, 2021 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The current Covid-19 crisis dominated debate during the Motion to Adjourn in the Senate yesterday.
The Opposition’s Marcus Jones began the session urging everyone to follow government safety regulations and guidelines.
He claimed that the current spi...
