An interactive wellness programme for government employees will be launched next month in an effort to tackle the $12.8 million cost of public sector sick leave.
Workers were urged to take on the team-based challenge as part of a Throne Speech pledge...
DATE: Jun 03, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Dear Sir,
Bermuda, I wish to introduce you to my father, Larry Woolgar. Many may know him from his time as a men’s clothing buyer and manager for The English Sports Shop, Aston & Gunn and Gibbons Company. Alternatively, you may know him from the lov...
DATE: Jun 03, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
The Chubb Charitable Foundation — Bermuda is pleased to announce this year’s Robert Clements Scholarship recipient:
Madison Sidney Virgil Quig, a recent graduate of Bermuda High School (BHS) has been selected as the 2019 Robert Clements Scholar in th...
A new playground designed to be accessible for the disabled opened yesterday.
The attraction, at the WindReach centre for the disabled in Warwick, will feature an area for music, a mini-theatre, extra- wide slides and diggers that can be operated by ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A decision on whether schoolchildren will return to the classroom on Monday is in the hands of teachers, the education minister said last night.
Diallo Rabain, speaking after teachers downed tools as part of an industrial dispute, said: “That was som...
Children were dropped at school yesterday by parents unaware that there were no teachers to look after them because of an industrial dispute.
Many principals across the schools system were forced to look after 100 or more pupils before the Ministry o...
The island’s teachers union has not been part of talks to relocate staff from a closed middle school, its head said yesterday.
Shannon James, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said the union had had “no correspondence” with the Governm...
Three members of North Village’s famous 1978 “Triple Crown” winning squad have been named among this year’s Bermuda Football Association Legends.
Twins Richard and Robert Calderon and Randy Bean are among the five legends who will be honoured via the...
DATE: May 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Colin Thompson
A motion to raise the retirement age goes up for debate today in the House of Assembly.
Legislators heard on May 10 about plans to increase the retirement and pensionable age at the same time from 65 to 70 over a ten-year period, with the retirement ...
DATE: May 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Warwick Academy has held a ground-breaking ceremony for its new marine science facility.
Pupils will be able to take advantage of the school’s dock and develop their understanding of the ocean at the facility next to Hamilton Harbour.
It is being bui...
