Bermuda College is to celebrate its students’ achievements at its annual commencement ceremony tomorrow.
The ceremony will also see the first group of 16 graduates from the certificate of applied technology programme.
All the graduates were dual enro...
DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
A former Bermuda High School pupil was announced yesterday as Bermuda’s Rhodes scholar for this year.
Deirdre Collins, from St George’s, was awarded the honour after a gruelling application process for the prestigious award.
Ms Collins will use the ...
Lois Scott was determined to give her six children a good education.
The problem was she and her husband Leslie couldn’t afford the private school they had in mind. Undaunted, she offered to clean it.
“That was the only way we could keep our children...
DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A group of Somersfield Academy pupils have donated $1,400 to help other young Bermudians improve their reading skills.
The five-strong team raised enough to send two people to be trained as Reading Clinic tutors to help young people across the island...
DATE: May 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Visiting research vessel Corwith Cramer is to host an open house today.
Captain Jason Quilter said the public would be able to take a look around the ship before it resumes its voyage north to New York.
Captain Quilter explained that the ship, owned...
Giovanni De Braga has been hooked on tall ships since he first sailed on the training vessel Spirit of Bermuda.
The 17-year-old Sea Cadet has now been chosen to take a trip to New York on the research vessel Corwith Cramer.
He said: “It’s such an ama...
The wife of a senior island churchman is on a mission to help young moms.
Fiona Dill, married to Anglican Bishop of Bermuda Nicholas Dill, has worked for many years as a doula — a non-medical birth companion.
She said she became aware of the problems...
Neika does not have children of her own, but she has been mother to four children in need.
For Neika — not her real name — signed up as a foster parent to give children a safe environment and a place to call home.
Neika said she became a foster mot...
TODAY
• St Paul’s Guild: Join us for a pre-Mother’s Day bingo night. Tickets, $15, are available from Guild members and include a meal and one bingo card. Additional cards cost $2. 6.30pm to 9pm at St Paul’s Christian Education Centre. For more infor...
Lindsay Simmons has fostered close to 20 children. Last week she received an early Mother’s Day gift when she adopted her own.
Three-year-old Laundyn has been in her care since she was born because her birth mother was a heroin user who left her dau...
