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Growing up in the foster care system, Dwayne Wescome sometimes felt like he was unloved, unwanted and abandoned. Then he developed a close relationship with God, which proved to him otherwise. The 30-year-old recently graduated with a master of div...

The transfers of some 30 teachers and six principals are hanging in the balance less than two weeks before the start of the new school term as arguments rumble in the courts over whether parents were properly consulted about the moves. The Bermuda Pa...

“Children must come first,” was the message from Minister of Education Wayne Scott yesterday as he welcomed a court decision allowing teachers and principals to go ahead with their transfers. Mr Scott spoke to The Royal Gazette outside the Civil Cour...

Seven Warwick Academy Year 10 students chose The Royal Gazette as their top place of employment. Sarah Taylor of Warwick Academy co-ordinated a two-day work experience programme together with Caroline Desmarais, chief development officer, to offer th...

The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association claims the Ministry of Education wants to “fatally wound” it with planned changes to the education system. Harry Matthie, the association’s chairman, said the ministry intended to turn the BPTSA and othe...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers has joined the number of unions speaking out against a Bermuda Government lawsuit against Jason Hayward. Bob Richards, the Minister of Finance, formally launched a defamation lawsuit — to be paid for by the Government — ...

Children are the same, the world over. That’s what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand. “I thought there would be more cultural differences,” said the 31-year-old teacher. “With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they ofte...

The Pembroke Rotary Club has donated back-to-school supplies to foster children. The club gave 50 backpacks filled with stationery and other items to the Bermuda Foster Parents’ Association. Working with the Department of Child and Family Services, t...

Summer maintenance work at the Island’s schools is nearly complete and they will be open on time for the new term, Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, has assured the public. However, the ministry is still working to fill “one or two” vacancies b...

A judge has questioned the timing of an attempt to block teacher and principal transfers — two weeks before the new school term. The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association was in Civil Court yesterday to seek a judicial review against the Ministr...

Two young men have received the Southampton Parish Educational Awards for 2015. Taylor Braithwaite and Carlsen Philip II have both been residents of the parish for more than 20 years and began their education together at Southampton Pre-school. Mr Br...

Four students have each been awarded the Nicholl scholarship to help pursue their further education. Lindsay Fisher, Zachary Friesen, Christia Wright and Ashley Berry were each awarded $25,000 scholarships for the period of their present course of st...