The National Museum of Bermuda (NMB) is launching a new online programme in an effort to stay connected during these challenging times. “At Home with History” will provide learning, literacy support and fun activities for students, families and life...
The head of the island’s teachers union has slammed a decision to dock the wages of teachers who took industrial action in February.
Nishanthi Bailey, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that she had “no other option than to withdraw...
Residents have to “dig deep” over the next two weeks to help the island avoid a devastating outbreak of Covid-19, the Premier said yesterday.David Burt insisted Bermuda could slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes the deadly disease, as...
Artist James Cooper describes his work as “semitropical punk”. “It is not punk like 1980s spiky-hair punk, but punk in the sense that I use materials that are unexpected and ideas that are a bit different,” he said. “I am more experimental, perhaps.”...
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...
