PwC Bermuda has committed $100,000 to support community response to Covid-19. The company is donating laptops to public schoolteachers and students to support digital learning, and 500 masks for frontline workers.
In a statement, the company said: “A...
DATE: Apr 02, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Part of a childcare programme for essential services workers will be up and running today, the Minister of Education pledged this week.
Diallo Rabain said that the programme, designed for children aged 5 and 6, would be held at the Sammy Wilson Centr...
Dear Sir,
Let me introduce you to Bermuda’s new status quo — our public education.
For context, I refer you to the year 2013, when our public schools’ mathematics and science results had a very poor IGCSE showing, with only 19 per cent of students g...
DATE: Apr 01, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
“Lord, am I worthy for you to enter under my roof?”
In a previous column, I talked about what we commonly call karma or reaping what we sow. Today, I want to introduce a parallel subject of “worthiness”.
Too often as individuals and society, we act ...
School staff were saluted for their hard work in the Covid-19 crisis by the education minister.
Diallo Rabain said that a lot had been asked of public school principals, teachers and support workers in these “unprecedented times”.
He told them in a ...
A fresh supply of equipment to protect healthcare workers during the coronavirus crisis has arrived — but it did not include N95 respirators.
However, David Burt, the Premier, said yesterday that shipment of equipment from China was expected to arriv...
Almost three quarters of public primary schools ranked as poor or very poor in maths based on the average pupil score in a test sat last year, it has been revealed.
Two schools, Heron Bay, in Southampton, and Paget Primary, had an average pupil scor...
A specialist medical centre is to offer classes for patients who suffer from chronic kidney disease.
Bermuda Home Dialysis Services has launched its chronic kidney disease programme, which will start “in the near future” after quarantine measures hav...
Former football star Shaun Goater is on the bench with his family amid the Covid-19 crisis in the UK.
The ex-Manchester City player, his wife and two adult daughters are all at home in Greater Manchester after Britain imposed major shutdowns in the w...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
It’s been “an up and down year” for Emma Steele. Hers was a spur-of-the-moment submission to the Bermuda National Gallery’s 2020 Bermuda Biennial.
She was thrilled when it was accepted, the news coming with the success of her work-in-progress show a...
