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.
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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, ...
A student taken under the wing of the island’s most famous conservationist has followed in his footsteps by studying for a doctorate in the study of birds.
Miguel Mejías, 32, said that he expected to finish his PhD in ornithology at a university in C...
Cuts could be made to the price of prescription drugs if the Government worked with other countries to negotiate better rates, the health watchdog’s chief executive said yesterday.
Ricky Brathwaite, head of the Bermuda Health Council, explained that ...
DATE: Feb 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
David Burt told an audience of about 85 young residents that he wanted a “smaller, more intimate” space to talk about his government and its priorities.
More than 500 watched last night’s online forum, aired by the social-media group Bermemes, as the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
