As far back as 1968, the Progressive Labour Party platform called for comprehensive schools or neighbourhood schools. The failure of Bermuda to move in that direction over the past 60 years is a mark of the PLP’s failure to pursue its stated goal of ...
Ianthe Pearman, a teacher for nearly 50 years and an East End matriarch, has died. Ms Pearman was 94.
Former pupils included former premier Dame Jennifer Smith, who gave an address at Ms Pearman’s funeral last week, and government ministers.
Other sp...
DATE: Nov 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
An arts organisation has appealed for help to go green, one lightbulb at a time.
Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art said it wanted people to donate to its solar campaign for today’s Giving Tuesday.
Tom Butterfield, the founder and creative director of...
DATE: Nov 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Primary school pupils were drafted in to help decorate a hotel’s Christmas tree.
Now the Harrington Sound Primary work — designed to give tourists a taste of Bermudian culture — has pride of place at the Grotto Bay Hotel after it was unveiled yesterd...
DATE: Nov 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The Commissioner of Police has backed better training standards for new road users — and special courses for people who break traffic laws.
Stephen Corbishley said more sophisticated instruction for new riders and drivers would help cut the island’s ...
We are now more than two weeks into a new sanctions regime on Iran, and it will be a long time before it ends. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has listed 12 conditions that Iran needs to meet before that happens. They include a permanent cessati...
Almost 50 vulnerable Bermudian children were sent to overseas institutions in the past five years without their wishes being taken into account by the courts, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Statistics released under public access to information legisl...
DATE: Nov 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermuda College students will get the unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with more than 20 of the College’s overseas academic partners at the “Bermuda College Transfer Pathways Fair” Tuesday, November 27, and Wednesday, November 28. The first of...
Once again Bermuda seems to be drifting into a troubling period where even those without strong political attachments are very concerned as to whether the government of the day is really in touch with critical issues that most Bermudians want address...
DATE: Nov 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Al Seymour
Business leaders could be used to boost the ailing schools system, the Shadow education minister has said.
Cole Simons said that a proposed independent education authority could benefit from the insights of the private sector, backed by education off...