There is perhaps no project more fulfilling than one that is close to your heart, and that can have a positive impact on both your future and the world around you.
Students at Somersfield Academy had the opportunity to exhibit “personal projects” th...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history
Benjamin Banneker, free black, farmer, mathematician, and astronome...
Business confidence has grown over the past few months, a major survey has shown.
And Bermuda-only businesses outstripped their international counterparts in the optimism stakes.
Local business hit 105.9 in the second survey of last year, up 5.3 poin...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Two big challenges to sustainable growth are debt — and, by implication, debt service — and rising inequality. This year’s Budget deals with both head-on.
To the first of these challenges, Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, has made laudable pr...
Berkeley Institute principal Phyllis Curtis-Tweed is set to resign at the end of the academic year, the school’s governing body said.
According to a statement, she made the decision to resign in order to pursue another professional opportunity.
Dr Cu...
DATE: Feb 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dear Sir,
I feel safe in stating that public school education is high on the list of concerns of the majority of Bermudians. I also feel safe in stating that there is broad agreement that the business of educating the children of Bermuda must be look...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Bob Richards issued a stark warning on the importance of tackling the island’s debt and added that a casual attitude towards extra borrowing would be “irresponsible and dangerous”.
The finance minister made the comments in his annual Budget statement...
A book was all the inspiration Francine Rollins needed.
She was recently divorced from her high school sweetheart and still suffering from a devastating miscarriage when she picked up US pastor Joy Morgan’s Roadmap to Destiny last year.
It helped her...
Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that while Bermuda’s public education system is going to need a lot more than a $2 million budget boost to bring it up to par, he was encouraged that funds for the department ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Lower-paid workers will get payroll tax cuts over two years, while big earners will be forced to dig deeper into their pockets.
Delivering a 2017-18 Budget yesterday aiming to spread the tax burden more fairly, finance minister Bob Richards also anno...
