Curtis Dickinson cannot have upset too many people with his Budget yesterday, given that most of us are concerned mainly with how any changes will affect our own immediate financial wellbeing.
That may well have been the political aim of the exercis...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Joseph Henry Thomas made a major contribution to education and to the formation of friendly societies in Bermuda in the years after emancipation.
He was head teacher of the Lane School, the first chairman of the Berkeley Educational Society and helpe...
The decades-old 60:40 rule designed to guarantee Bermudian majority ownership of companies is to be axed and no new taxes will be imposed.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said in his Budget Statement that the 60:40 numbers would be reverse...
Cash will be invested in information technology to boost government efficiency, the finance minister pledged yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson made several references to the need for more effective ways of working in his Budget speech.
He told the House of...
The Government plans to spend $19.8 million more than it takes in over the next 12 months, which will push the country’s total debt to almost $2.68 billion.
Interest payments will amount to $121.4 million in the 2020-21 financial year, about $332,600...
TN Tatem Middle School has been permanently closed.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said all of the island’s public middle school students will now be accommodated in four middle schools.
Mr Rabain held talks with staff from the Warwick public...
The loss of TN Tatem Middle School is “like a death”, a former teacher said yesterday.
The teacher, who asked not to be named, said that current and former teachers were “heartbroken” by the decision to permanently close the Warwick public school.
S...
Bermuda’s education minister was guarded yesterday on whether more public schools would be closed in the future.
Diallo Rabain said that the decision to close TN Tatem Middle School, in Warwick, would provide a “framework” if other closures were to ...
Members of the island’s teachers union have breached their collective bargaining agreement five times this school year, the education commissioner claimed today.
Kalmar Richards said the Bermuda Union of Teachers “must place children first when takin...
School projects ranging from pop art-inspired recycled sneakers to soul food were showcased at Somersfield Academy yesterday.
The projects were among the work displayed by M5 pupils as part of their International Baccalaureate middle-year programme, ...
