Public schools are to close their classrooms and move to remote learning for the rest of the term as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was revealed yesterday.
The announcement came after 24 more cases of the coronavirus were recorded – which brou...
DATE: Dec 09, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
Pupils and staff at CedarBridge Academy were told to quarantine for two weeks after a possible exposure to Covid-19.
A Ministry of Education spokeswoman said Ayoola Oyinloye, the Chief Medical Officer, instructed that the stay-at-home order was in pl...
DATE: Dec 09, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
For 63 years Webster and Cecilia Furbert shared a love of piano music.
Mr Furbert loved classical; his wife preferred hymns.
“After my wife died it seemed like my fingers just couldn’t get to the keys,” the 88-year-old said.
Slowly, with the support ...
Two schools in Devonshire forged a tighter bond by sharing the gift of reading yesterday.
Somersfield Academy donated a book token to the nearby Elliot Primary School library after it held its annual Read-a-Thon from November 2 to 20.
The Devonshire ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The Berkeley Institute has reverted to online learning from today until the end of term next Wednesday.
A note sent out last night said that the decision was taken because of parents’ and pupils’ concerns over Covid-19, although there have been no ca...
A coronavirus case has been found at CedarBridge Academy and the school is to be closed while a risk assessment is carried out, the health ministry said last night.
A spokeswoman for the ministry said that pupils and staff would be banned from the De...
DATE: Dec 07, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The One Bermuda Alliance has cried foul over a lack of transparency on the Government’s plans for a vertical farm.
Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, announced plans last month for the hi-tech agriculture to produce leafy greens for the isl...
DATE: Dec 07, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A graduate of the pupillage programme at law firm Appleby has been Called to the Bar.
Ashley Bento spent the first 12 months of her two-year training stint at the firm in the corporate and insurance departments.
Ms Bento now works with John Wasty, th...
DATE: Dec 07, 2020 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
Pupils and staff at an East End middle school have been told to quarantine for two weeks in the wake of potential Covid-19 exposure, it was revealed last night.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said that, based on advice from the Chief Medic...
DATE: Dec 05, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda cannot relax its management of Government finances despite a successful debt issue of $1.35 billion this summer, the finance minister warned today.
Curtis Dickinson told the House of Assembly that the Government took on $520 million in new l...
