Schools are on track to reopen in September after a “mammoth task” to create safety rules to reduce the risk of Covid-19, the education minister said yesterday.
Diallo Rabain added that social-distancing requirements and a 30-minute health check ever...
See if you can spot the link between the following three vignettes. Ready? (Hint: it’s the economy).
First there was Sage
How did you spend your weekend? Me? I blew the dust off the Sage Report — well, only the executive Summary, if truth be told.
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DATE: Jul 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Pearman
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the world in which we live with families, communities and businesses facing challenges that most of us could never even imagine. Normality seems so far away and long ago, and it is hard to say when it will eve...
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.” — Unknown
Bermuda, we are three years into the landslide Progressive Labour Party victory to run our governmen...
Almost lost amid the controversy, the debate and the mudslinging of a sexual-abuse sentencing hearing has been the person most central to the case — the victim.
A 13-year-old girl who more than likely will be scarred for life by the events of last ye...
A Supreme Court judge hit out yesterday at controversial comments made by a defence lawyer as she jailed his client for 18 months.
Chez Rogers, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges that he lured and had unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl ...
Cabinet appointments to the national security and tourism and transport portfolios will go ahead today.
The replacements for Wayne Caines and Zane DeSilva, who both quit Cabinet last week over a public breach of Covid-19 health restrictions, were exp...
DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Hearteningly, it seems that many Bermudians disapprove of the comments made by Charles Richardson last Friday. It is encouraging to see so many speaking out against his behaviour. However, it seems as though many more either do not understand the iss...
Stress brought on by the pandemic has led more residents to seek help for drug and alcohol use.
Focus Counselling has seen a rise in “people that wouldn’t normally participate in our services” as a result of Covid-19.
Leslie Grant, the executive dire...
DATE: Jul 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Daina Casling was worried about her daughter’s education when The Reading Clinic was forced to switch to online tutoring during the Covid-19 pandemic.
She need not have been concerned — like many of the other children involved with the education char...
