More than 100 Berkeley Students celebrated last week after they passed the Bermuda School Certificate Programme.
According to school principal Michelle Simmons, 122 of 131 S4 students, around 93 percent, graduated, while another 12 students who start...
The Big Conversation on race should continue as some employers discriminate against black workers, according to researchers who investigated Bermuda's racial divide.
Columbia University scientists concluded Government should also introduce more pragm...
DATE: Jul 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
A 27-year-old woman was today being treated in intensive care after a drive-by shooting on Court Street.
According to police, the shooting took place outside Swinging Doors at 11.28pm yesterday. A man was also being treated for non-gunshot injuries.
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DATE: Jul 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
One of the great things about the Internet is the power it has to move ideas around the world at tremendous speed.
A speech given by a physicist in New Zealand might not have been reported on 20 years ago, let alone recorded.
But thanks to the Inter...
The Sunshine League children’s home will remain open for the next month or two while Government completes a review, although the children living there have already found new foster homes.
The charity announced on June 21 that it would close the home ...
Laws to protect whistleblowers are imminent, Premier Paula Cox announced as she promised a tighter rein on good governance.
Ms Cox also hinted loopholes which have allowed “unethical” behaviour will be closed, and promised legislation to improve tran...
DATE: Jul 04, 2011 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
July the 4th is two days away. Domestic citizens of the United States, from the flat vast farmlands to the high Sierras, and the sophisticated East Coast, look forward to celebrating another independence day in a long line of celebrations.
American c...
Wow! It's like instant summer.
Gone is all the overcast and breeze. It is now the hot, humid and sunshiny summers that we refer to as Bermudaful days. Plenty of good reasons to either stay in the air conditioning or to head offshore in search of som...
Gavin Manders has promised to ‘leave it all on court’ as he goes in search of two gold medals at the Island Games today.
Manders reached two tennis finals yesterday on a day when the Island’s sailboarders picked up Bermuda’s first gold in the team ev...
Five decades ago black people had their freedom restricted by segregation today young men are doing it to themselves.
Progressive Group member Erskine Simmons yesterday reflected on the irony of self-imposed barriers facing young men who can’t enter ...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith