As the Government seeks to grow and diversify our economy, we must ensure that our youth have every opportunity to be full participants in the economy of today and tomorrow’s Bermuda.
Whether it is ensuring the education system has the resources to ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jason Hayward
This is the third in a series of opinion pieces drawing on my experience as executive director of the Bermuda Education Network.
My last opinion piece discussed how teaching has become exponentially more challenging as the social needs of our childr...
There was an invisible line dividing Collin Simmons’s Pembroke neighbourhood in the 1950s.
White people lived on one side of Happy Valley Road, and blacks on the other. Socially, their paths did not cross.
Despite that, it was not until he was a teen...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
An anti-violence event for schoolchildren yesterday was a success, organisers said last night.
Desmond Crockwell said that the Bermuda Wears Red event would have been worthwhile “even if only one person responded to the call to support the initiativ...
Hamilton Princess & Beach Club has unveiled a new series of wine events for the first quarter of 2019.
The first of the monthly events, the Chef and Sommelier Blind Wine Pairing Dinner, will take place from 6:30pm on Friday, January 25 and will be a...
DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Press Release
A Bermuda Centre for Creative Learning pupil said the school was like “home”.
Kelsey De Silva, 15, said the learning environment helped her succeed since she started at the school when it opened three years ago.
Tamara De Silva, Kelsey’s mother, said...
A lunchtime march for women’s rights is to be held today.
The event is being hosted by Women’s Action and Change Today, and Move Bermuda Forward.
A spokeswoman for Women’s ACT said that “people should be safe from abuse, whether it be sexual, physic...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
A work to rule at West Pembroke Primary School quietly ended earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Education.
The action which launched in November came to an end on January 3.
A spokesman said: “Towards the end of November 2018, West Pemb...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda Skyport has been announced as the new lead sponsors of the former Telford Electric Magic Mile, now rebranded as the Skyport Magic Mile, ensuring the preservation of the ever-popular event’s future.
The event, organised by the Bermuda Pacers T...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Running-Triathlon | AUTHOR: Sam Murley
Teachers from all the island’s schools have been invited by Warwick Academy to a special workshop for educators today on the “art of learning”.
The school, supported by the Lancashire Foundation, is offering local teachers professional development wo...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell