Dear Sir,
In today’s Royal Gazette (March 31, 2021) the chairman of the Bermuda College Board of Governors, Peter Sousa, ran a large advertisement congratulating long-service awardees.
Unfortunately, in large print, he has shown an egregious lack o...
DATE: Apr 06, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
Bermudian university student William Welch has been hired by engineering company iEPC as an intern.
The internship is part of Mr Welch’s engineering programme at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he is a first-year student in the s...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Bermuda Electric Light Company Ltd is accepting applications for the company’s scholarship opportunities that are available to Bermudian students.
The company said scholarships will be awarded to prospective employees of the company who will attend s...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Routine saliva testing for the coronavirus is to be expanded in the island’s public school system, according to Diallo Rabain, the education minister.
Mr Rabain said last night that a pilot school testing programme had found “two positive cases which...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The mother of a teenager who died last year after a motorcycle accident is hoping to raise money to start a scholarship in honour of her son.
Antoinette Burgess said that fundraising had started for the Kijani Burgess Dream Award and that she hoped t...
This year, “I choose to challenge” was the theme of International Women’s Month. In the spirit of this, I have elected to challenge our government to work to improve the protection of women and others who are harassed and abused, and to ban the non-d...
The year 2020 and the start of 2021 will mark a dramatically different school experience that all of our children will remember for the rest of their lives. Our teachers have had to be creative, adapting to conditions and circumstances that they were...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Ben Smith
For too many years Bermudians have been fed with the narrative that we need to become more like the Cayman Islands, specifically with regard to work-permit and status issues.
Realistically, it is hard to argue with things like budget surpluses and in...
DATE: Apr 03, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
The number of footballers at Brooke House College in Leicestershire, England, will grow to five in the autumn when four Bermuda Under-15 national academy players join Deniche Hill at the school.
Corey Hill, who is Deniche’s father and works as an age...
DATE: Apr 03, 2021 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
Somersfield Academy has announced the appointment of Peter Howe as their next Head of School.
Mr Howe, an educator native to Canada, will take the reins at the start of the 2021/22 school year after the retirement of Carlos Symonds, the incumbent sch...