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An official was yesterday suspended from the teachers’ union after he claimed the executive had violated its constitution. Leonard Santucci, who was the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, was told in a letter from Ant...

A union representative has been branded “treasonous” by a teaching union. Leonard Santucci, the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, came under attack in a union internal memo after he highlighted claimed breaches of th...

Almost 50 members of the Bermuda Union of Teachers have requested a special meeting to vote down decisions apparently made by the union’s executive committee without general membership consent. Leonard Santucci, the BUT representative for The Berkele...

The general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has stepped down after 22 years in the job at the request of the union. Mike Charles confirmed that he was asked to quit and that he left the job in early June. But he refused to discuss the rea...

Teachers have defended taking tomorrow as a half-term break – and fired a broadside at the Department of Education. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said the Government request to use the holiday to catch up on lessons lost because of the coronavirus cl...

Tributes have been paid by the island’s teaching union to Dr Joseph Christopher, a former Commissioner of Education, who died earlier this week. In a statement, the Bermuda Union of Teachers described Dr Christopher as a “man of immense intellectual ...

The vast majority of the $9 million budget reduction for the Ministry of Education was achieved through the defunding of posts and government austerity measures, the House of Assembly was told yesterday. The overall budget for the Ministry of Educati...

A major figure in the island’s public education system has died. Earl “Gabby” Hart was 79. Mr Hart was also prominent in sport as a founder of the Bermuda Track & Field Association in 1972 and as an influential member of the Young Men’s Social Club. ...

The number of teachers in Bermuda’s public primary schools cannot be cut if school rolls remained the same, a senior teachers’ union official warned yesterday. Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, was speaking after t...

The teachers union yesterday joined forces with other labour organisations to oppose legislation designed to give non-union members a vote to end representation. The Bermuda Union of Teachers backed the Bermuda Trade Union Congress, the Bermuda Indus...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers praised the profession yesterday for its hard work in the face of Covid-19 in a video created to mark World Teachers Day. The video, presented to Education International — a global organisation made up of teaching unions...

A drama teacher will be centre stage for the Bermuda Union of Teachers for the whole of the new school year. The BUT executive said that Nishanthi Bailey, who teaches at Dellwood Middle School in Pembroke, had become full-time president of the union....