A proposed education authority must be free from government influence, a newly appointed independent senator said yesterday.
Speaking during the Senate debate on the Throne Speech, John Wight said: “I am pleased to see the creation of an education a...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
My earliest months of life were spent in a cotton sack, dragged along by my parents as they picked cotton in the fields of the large East Texas plantation where they toiled as sharecroppers in the 1940s. I learnt from them that my life would continue...
Two more coronavirus cases have been identified and, separately, children from a fourth school were told to quarantine, it emerged yesterday.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said that the Primary 5 class of West End Primary was asked to sta...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
An Opposition senator questioned how many Bermuda College students on government scholarships had graduated.
Marcus Jones, the Opposition Senate Leader, yesterday quizzed Owen Darrell, senator and Junior Minister for the Cabinet Office, Education, an...
DATE: Nov 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Age Concern has appointed five new directors to its board and has also added two new executives to its management team.
The charity, which provides support to senior citizens and those approaching retirement while also advocating for the elderly, sa...
The City of Hamilton put the finishing touches to its traditional Christmas tree yesterday – with some help from youngsters from an autism education centre.
Kingsley Ming, a pupil at autism services centre Tomorrow’s Voices, was invited to help place...
More than a third of people – 42 per cent – lost income because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a poll revealed yesterday.
The Global Research poll showed that 27 per cent of those surveyed had been laid off or had their hours reduced and that 8 per cent l...
A total of eight new cases of the coronavirus were identified over the weekend and all but one had no link to travel, the Minister of Health revealed last night.
Kim Wilson said the positive test results were among 2,044 that came back to health offi...
DATE: Nov 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
On the Saturday Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election, LeBron James tweeted a picture of his block of a lay-up by Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala to seal the 2016 NBA championship. Except it was altered, with Bid...
The Bermuda College will host a virtual conference on Saturday aimed at helping educators to better teach reading, especially to primary school students.
The conference, entitled “Reading Success for Every Child: Teaching Reading is Rocket Science”,...
