Today is a very sad day for me, along with the former students that attended in the 1960s and 1970s, the Churchill School, Robert Crawford and the former Prospect Boys Secondary School — also known as Cunningham’s School — as we learn about the untim...
DATE: Jan 06, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
A Royal Navy officer who helped create the Royal Bermuda Regiment Coastguard and a Bermudian volunteer at a historic British cathedral have featured on the New Year’s Honours List.
Commander Marcus Jacques was appointed an Officer of the Most Excelle...
Covid-19 has claimed its first victim of the new year, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister said the loss was “very upsetting” for the public.
The news came as Ms Wilson announced that more than 9,000 doses of vaccine will arri...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A major figure in the island’s public education system has died.
Earl “Gabby” Hart was 79.
Mr Hart was also prominent in sport as a founder of the Bermuda Track & Field Association in 1972 and as an influential member of the Young Men’s Social Club.
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DATE: Jan 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Private school pupils will go back to their classrooms for the start of the new term, it was announced yesterday.
But public schoolchildren will be learning at home from today until at least January 12.
Pupils at Mount Saint Agnes Academy were back ...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Michael Dunkley, the Shadow Minister of Health, is urging the Government to ensure that fresh supplies of the coronavirus vaccine will be made available.
The Government is expected to receive 9,750 doses of the drug this week – enough to provide 4,87...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause.
However, out of some of the gloomiest ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
When Jamie Dimon, the head of America's largest bank, says the US economy is in jeopardy, Federal Reserve policymakers and elected officials ought to take notice.
This detail was tucked away in a Wall Street Journal profile of JPMorgan Chase's chief ...
Nikita Robinson may be known for speaking her mind on the radio – but she said she was stunned into silence after she was included in the New Year’s Honours List.
Ms Robinson said: “When they told me, my heart skipped a beat.
“I’m a woman of words ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Education chiefs will meet next week to decide if schoolchildren will go back to their classrooms in the middle of the month.
The Education Emergency Measures Committee has already ruled that remote learning will be used from Tuesday until January 12...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
