A new partnership between Future Leaders Bermuda and a global boarding school will give Bermudian middle and high school students the chance to travel abroad in the summer to study leadership and entrepreneurship on an annual basis.
Future Leaders B...
Berkeley Institute pupils have been given counselling after the death of 15-year-old schoolmate Kiara Paiva, it was revealed yesterday.
The Berkeley Board of Governors added the school’s flag was flown at half-mast in the wake of the sudden death of ...
DATE: Jan 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A gay rights campaigner welcomed a call for LGBTQ people to get involved in the battle against gang violence.
Adrian Hartnett-Beasley, deputy chairman of pressure group OutBermuda, said he was pleased that Wayne Caines, the national security minister...
If the Minister of Education had listened to and fully engaged with our principals, teachers, parents and the Bermuda Union of Teachers in the first instance, the challenges we are seeing in education could have been avoided.
All those stakeholders,...
DATE: Jan 09, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Cole Simons
Bermuda’s former prison is to be reborn as a history research centre, the executive director of the National Museum of Bermuda said yesterday.
Elena Strong said the Casemates buildings in Dockyard would be used to focus on “the Atlantic World from 14...
DATE: Jan 09, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions.
Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...
Primary school pupils are prepared to avoid getting tangled up in gang culture after a six-week course designed to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence.
Ten students at Prospect Primary School in Pembroke, aged 10 or 11, completed the Gang Resist...
Conservationists hope lionfish will be back on the menu this winter as the fifth annual Winter Lionfish Derby picks up steam.
As of Monday afternoon more than 180 lionfish had already been caught as part of this year’s derby.
A spokesman said: “It se...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dozens of new signs have gone up at Dockyard – telling visitors the names of a huge variety of plants.
The signs, which give the Latin and English names, were the idea of West End Development Corporation’s landscape staff who undertook the project ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Press Release
Clarien Bank has appointed chief executive officer Ian Truran to the bank’s board of directors.
Mr Truran has led the bank since May 2010, when he was named CEO of Capital G Bank, before the rebranding as Clarien.
Patrick Hylton, chairman of Clarien ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
