Staff at a drug prevention charity have completed an international training course designed to help youngsters cope better at school.
Lisa Brewster, Marina Sousa and Samantha Smith of Pride completed the affiliate trainer course in the Promoting Alt...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Staff from the Fairmont Southampton helped to spruce up a primary school in preparation for the start of the new school year.
Thirteen hotel employees worked at the parish’s Heron Bay Primary School as part of their back-to-school community service ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A plan to axe middle schools in favour of specialist “signature” schools has to be backed with hard facts, a top international academic warned yesterday.
Peter Cookson, senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, based in Washington DC, said ...
A scientist dubbed “a robotics legend” by business magazine Forbes is to make a presentation at a major conference in Bermuda.
Ayanna Howard will discuss whether humans should trust robots at the TEDx event next month.
Dr Howard is a lecturer, rese...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Appleby Bermuda’s Tim Faries and Eduardo Fox will be speaking at the Alarys and Apogeris Congress in Portugal today.
The two-day Alarys (Latin American Association on Risk Management and Insurance) and Apogeris (Associação Portuguesa de Gestão de Ri...
Patrina O’Connor-Paynter and Ellen-Kate Horton have joined the appointments committee of the Media Council of Bermuda.
Ms Paynter, also known as PowerGirl, will serve as the committee chair.
They will join Myra Virgil, who has served on the on the co...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
At the beginning of the summer holiday of 2018, most students, myself included, basked in the wondrous prospect of doing nothing.
However, for one group of Warwick Academy students, this was not the case. Eager to grasp an opportunity that would “onl...
Bermuda’s new education chief must fix the island’s public schools, which are failing young black men, a former acting commissioner said.
Lou Matthews said Kalmar Richards faced a variety of problems.
He added that the island had to make a “radical ...
Three North Hamilton fixtures have been honoured with the Priscilla Wilkinson Business Award.
Place’s Cafe, the Young Men’s Social Club and entrepreneur Jenefer Brimmer have been recognised for their success and contributions to the community.
Dale B...
DATE: Sep 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Women’s Resource Centre is not at all surprised by the recent conversational frenzy around recent comments made by national security minister Wayne Caines. This is what happens. There is an outcry around an incident and as soon as the dust settle...
