American space agency Nasa opened its new tracking station yesterday.
The station, on Cooper’s Island in St David’s, will be used to monitor Nasa space missions as a predecessor did from the same site in the 1960s, when rockets from Cape Canaveral in...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
I am curious and concerned upon learning of the Cabinet shuffle by David Burt, the second in 16 months after the election last year.
In addition, it must be noted that the Premier was misleading in his comments when he went to great lengths to emphas...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Michael Dunkley
The deadline for the Devonshire Parish Council Spring 2019 Scholarship is next week, Friday November 16th.
Applicants, who must be Bermudian and have resided in Devonshire Parish for at least 5 years, should submit a completed application form by th...
Schoolchildren are suffering more mental health problems, educational experts have warned.
Llewellyn Simmons, director of academics for the Ministry of Education, said: “Without a doubt it’s a growing problem.”
He added: “There’s a lot of stress and...
What’s so scary about climate change? The term is not scary — at least not in a visceral, skin-crawling sense. Scientists have shown that the likely two degrees of global warming to come this century will be extremely dangerous, but, you know, “two d...
DATE: Nov 05, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Faye Flam
Many argue that Bermuda has a “diverse culture”, but they are mistaken in their observation. A culture is the combined ideas, customs and behaviour of one group of people. A “diverse culture”, then, is an oxymoron, and impossible.
The truth is that ...
An environmental charity confirmed it has been forced to cut costs because of the knock-on effects of the 2008 financial crash.
Greenrock said it had taken the “difficult but necessary” decision to make the position of executive director redundant.
T...
A 21-year-old Bermudian who stabbed a rival drug dealer to death in Britain was jailed for life yesterday,
Zandrae Smith, 21, who lived in Bradford in West Yorkshire, must serve at least 22 years in prison for the attack, which he claimed was in self...
DATE: Nov 03, 2018 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The new Minister of Finance said yesterday if Bermuda’s Budget is not balanced this financial year, it will be in the next one.
Curtis Dickinson said: “We are still working through the numbers, but we definitely need to balance the Budget and if we d...
DATE: Nov 02, 2018 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A woman has claimed her foster daughter’s school tried to transfer the child to a learning support class without consultation.
She said she refused to allow the move and the girl stayed in a mainstream class after her doctor recommended the seven-yea...
DATE: Nov 02, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
