Ending the practice of social promotion in schools will ensure that students can develop “suitably and adequately” in the public system, according to Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education.
Mr Scott told a press conference this morning that the polic...
Teachers, parents and staff met this morning at the TN Tatem Middle School to air concerns over the conditions of facilities there.
Repairs to the building, and the mould issues that have afflicted a number of Government buildings, are understood to ...
DATE: Nov 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
About 40 people a week needed hospital treatment due to road collisions, new figures for October reveal.
Announcing the figures, Erica Rance Mill, the chairwoman of the Bermuda Road Safety Council, stated: “This is such a mind-numbing number. One wou...
The Department of Education is this week putting the spotlight on the role of the school psychologist during School Psychology Awareness Week.
This year’s theme — “Small Steps Change Lives” — was adopted from the National Association of School Psycho...
Delinquent employers face prosecution over nearly $90 million in unpaid social insurance and payroll tax.
The announcement was made today in a joint statement by tax commissioner Lucia Peniston, Department of Social Insurance director Karen Daniels a...
Information commissioner Gita Gutierrez has issued her first order compelling a senior civil servant to release a public access to information decision.
Ms Gutierrez filed the order at the Supreme Court against the permanent secretary at the Ministry...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Now that the dust has settled on events in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles and reality has hit home that Bermuda is a bona fide Division Four nation from a world cricket perspective, eyes turn instinctively to where to next for our nati...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
National security minister Jeff Baron said yesterday that Bermuda’s recidivism rate was falling and at an “all-time low”, describing it as a measure of the success of prison rehabilitation programmes.
The government senator told the Upper Chamber tha...
DATE: Nov 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Parent engagement sessions on the Cambridge Curriculum and Standards-Based Grading have been organised.
The first, an introduction to the curriculum, takes place tomorrow, at the CedarBridge Academy Cafetorium, from 5.45pm to 7.15pm.
The Department o...
Finalists for the Technology Innovation Awards will gather tomorrow evening at the Hamilton Princess to learn who will take home the top honours.
This is the tenth year of celebration of the best of Bermuda’s technology sector.
The finalists in the ‘...
