As we celebrated Martin Luther King Day, most Americans seemed to be in agreement about one thing: Black America isn’t doing well. The Right seems to perceive black communities as hopeless morasses of violence and dysfunction, as Donald Trump’s repea...
Prefects at Saltus Grammar School have taken the role of teachers as they aim to help educate younger students on the importance of accepting others.
As part of the school year’s theme of ‘diversity and acceptance’, the prefects organised a Diversit...
Tabia Butterfield is the winner of the fifth annual Christian Thunhurst Award.
The Bermuda Education Network announced Ms Butterfield will receive $6,000 as she begins a master’s degree in civil engineering at Cardiff University in September.
The awa...
DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
People’s Campaign leader Jason Hayward said he “does not expect any different activity” to last month’s protest when the controversial airport deal is debated in the House of Assembly on February 3.
Mr Hayward, who is president of the Bermuda Public ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
It is interesting to read the drivel from political pundits, extolling the virtues of conservatism while denigrating with righteous indignation anything remotely progressive as left wing.
Barack Obama has come to the end of his presidency amid a flur...
DATE: Jan 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Khalid Wasi
Graduates of the departed Bermuda Technical Institute are continuing their push for a revival of technical education to support the island’s young men.
In the wake of the 60th anniversary of the “Tech” this year, the Bermuda Technical Institute Alumn...
DATE: Jan 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Imagine England in the early 1950s. It was post-Second World War and young men who had grown up in that era of conflict were lost.
The UK was experiencing an epidemic of Bermuda’s equivalent to our “youth sitting on the wall”. A significant number o...
Messages of racial harmony, living in peace and overcoming violence resonated through the halls of Dalton E. Tucker school yesterday as students celebrated the life and legacy of the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King.
Primary pupils learn...
DATE: Jan 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Hard work has paid off for 17-year-old Matthew Brady as the honour roll Mount St Agnes senior prepares for college abroad on a scholarship.
“I have a life path, and it probably comes from my parents,” Matthew told The Royal Gazette. “If you put in th...
DATE: Jan 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Students at Impact Mentoring Academy were given a hands-on experience in the hospitality industry last month at its second annual Impact Hotel event.
The event, organised as part of the Bermuda Hospitality Institute’s Hospitality Skills, Life Skills ...
DATE: Jan 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
