“The next generation of leaders, managers and entrepreneurs” were presented with scholarship awards by the Department of Workforce Development yesterday.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, presented the awards to ten recipients at a ceremony at C...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Cecil G. Smith, a lifelong musician whose name became synonymous with the organ at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, has died at 85.
On Sunday he was given a send-off by the congregation of the Hamilton church, where he had also led the cho...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Bank of Bermuda Foundation (Foundation) continues to recognise the important work of our third sector and endorses the vital establishment of the Bermuda Nonprofit Stabilisation Fund (Fund), which is designed to ensure that the valued work of the non...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Press Release
A schoolboy is to get a second chance of an exhibition to showcase his artistic talent after an earlier event was shelved because of Covid-19.
Freda Trimm, a teacher at Paget Primary School, had hoped to hold an exhibition in April, Autism Awareness...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A pharmacy student who hopes to join the island’s battle against chronic illness has been given a $10,000 boost.
Ashley Davies is the winner this year of the Phoenix Stores’ Dr Kathy-Ann Louise White Pharmacy Scholarship, named after the first Bermud...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Worried teachers said yesterday they feared problems with the school bus service when the new term started because of Covid-19 safety rules.
It is expected that students will be required to stick to social-distancing rules on reduced capacity buses w...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic.
The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
We are a few months into one of the most dramatic economic calamities the world has witnessed, one that has not been seen since the Great Depression many decades ago.
The entire world is fighting a battle to keep people safe from a disease that, whil...
A Bermudian student is to start her final year at an overseas boarding school as head girl.
Adriana Malpas, 17, said that she would oversee events put on by prefects as part of her new role at the Trinity College School in Ontario, Canada.
She added ...
Dear Sir,
Many may know that Thomas Sowell is a highly respected American economist and social theorist who is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
He has just turned 90 and has written books and essays on the topics of educ...
DATE: Aug 08, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
