The Minister of Education, Diallo Rabain, has continued to promote the role that testing can play in getting our local schools to return in-person learning. He stated: “The saliva screening programme is an additional safety measure to keep our school...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Ben Smith
A shipment of 2,300 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive on today’s flight from the UK.
Priority will be given to people in need of first and second doses of the jab.
But Ayo Oyinloye, the Chief Medical Officer, said eligible pupils an...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Success in one of the few external exams to survive the pandemic lockdown was today celebrated by a private school.
Recent graduates from Saltus passed the international Advanced Placement exams, administered by the College Board.
The school said 77 ...
Wilton Reinsurance Bermuda Limited has donated $15,000 to Knowledge Quest in support of academic scholarships.
Knowledge Quest, a Bermuda-registered charity, was founded in 2001 with a mandate to promote further education for Bermudians with limited ...
A charity leader said her organisation was an “outlet” for women who faced challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tina Laws, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, which is today launching a series of webinars, explained t...
Heather Willens remembers just how isolated she felt when her son, Theo, was born last year.
Worried by the pandemic, she initially kept him close to home but as time went on she noticed he seemed a little more prone to sensory overload than his two-...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A private school has shut down because of the Covid-19 crisis after just one day back.
Saltus Grammar School said that although its secondary school returned only yesterday, senior pupils would move to remote learning for two weeks from today.
Primar...
A total of ten finalists are in the running for a teacher of the year award.
The teachers up for the Outstanding Teacher Award, organised by the Bermuda Education Network, were nominated by colleagues and the educational charity asked parents, pupils...
It’s hard to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. Back in the 1920s, Bermuda really was a different world.
There were no cars or television sets, no telephones, no freshly imported good flying in from foreign shores, none of today’s modern luxu...
The Ministry of Health had found cases of exposure to the coronavirus at a string of the island’s schools.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said exposures had been found at the Bermuda Institute, Saltus Grammar School, Warwick Academy, Mount Sa...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
