Ten top teachers are in the running for a prestigious award to be handed out tonight.
The nominees were all put forward for the Bermuda Education Network’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
The prize will be handed out at the network’s annual ...
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher
I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
The term “Two Bermudas” has been bandied about over the years to the point of overuse. That is because it has come to mean all things to all people whenever the mood strikes — politics, education, immigration, religion, same-sex marriage, healthcare,...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Harry S. Truman, the US president between 1945 and 1953, once said: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Too often we are focused on who is solving a problem and who gets the credit.
The global climate crisi...
A veteran teacher is to retire next year after his school celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Carlos Symonds told parents of Somersfield Academy pupils that he planned to step down as head of the Devonshire school in the summer of 2021.
He explained in ...
A health seminar for medical professionals to gain education credits is on offer this Saturday from Colonial Group International.
The annual forum, focusing on medicine for a new decade, will be held from 8am at the Hamilton Princess Hotel.
Open to t...
DATE: Jan 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
May I respond to Jan-Ann Martin who critiqued, in The Royal Gazette of January 13, my overlong comments on the proposed government health reforms?
First, it is worth noting and recording that Bermuda does come out reasonably well by comparison with o...
The Ledgelets in Sandys was once a thriving cottage colony owned by John and Nelga Young.
Then the tourism slide began; the couple passed away and the Ledgelets became strictly residential in the 1990s.
Now the property is going through a revival, of...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A Bermudian schoolboy and his mom have featured in a story by the UK’s national broadcaster about a rise in racist abuse in English schools.
Carla Zuill, a former Bermudian journalist who now lives in Manchester, told the BBC she was called by his sc...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The World Economic Forum, the most concentrated gathering of wealth and power on the planet, will begin once again amid a natural fortress of snow and ice in the Swiss Alps. President Donald Trump is jetting in for a scheduled address. Dozens of othe...
