In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American, Black Bermudian and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history. Her...
DATE: Feb 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Black History Month
Prison inmates will get the gift of literature from a new charity drive.
The fundraising scheme was organised by a diverse group of volunteers called the Personal Empowerment Circle, who pitched in four years ago to help to improve the lives of peopl...
DATE: Feb 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A pressure group has said the education of pupils of all ages was hampered by mask wearing in class after the Government said primary schoolchildren in the first three years did not have to wear them for lessons.
Us For Them Bermuda, set up after th...
DATE: Feb 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Trust in our political leaders should be the cornerstone of a healthy democracy; that belief that politicians and their ministries will act in our best interests.
Distrust in politics is corrosive to a healthy democracy and in Bermuda this has become...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Sir John Swan
S.S. Toddings’s Black ancestry may have been an open secret, but it was a secret just the same. Documents housed in the Bermuda Archives confirm that his mother and grandmother were formerly enslaved, which he managed to keep out of the public arena ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Black History Month
In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette continues the publication of stories throughout February on African-American, Black Bermudian and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history
S.S...
DATE: Feb 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Black History Month
The Bermuda College will receive a $75,000 boost over three years thanks to a donation from an insurance company.
BF&M Limited will give annual donations of $25,000 to the Bermuda College Foundation, a group tasked with funding the college, after the...
School enrolment dropped to an all-time low in 2020, statisticians have revealed.
The low pupil numbers, which sat at 8,916 pupils two years ago, the latest figures available, has dropped 1 per cent almost every year between 2011 and 2020.
A Departm...
Almost 50 families in need have been hooked up to the internet for a year to help with remote learning in schools.
The scheme was organised with support from the Centennial Bermuda Foundation and TeleBermuda International’s Bluewave internet service ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A man who broke into a teenager’s bedroom and raped her is to be released from prison on Monday, the Ministry of Legal Affairs confirmed yesterday.
TeWolde Mathin Selassie, 44, was sentenced to 25 years for the 2005 assault on a 15-year-old girl.
Kat...
DATE: Feb 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
