The Royal Gazette article written by Jonathan Bell and published on May 27, 2022 stated “preserving histories of schools facing closure under public education reforms is to go ahead with the selection...
In the last of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons recalls Margaret “Peggy” Ridley Watson
Margaret Ridley was 27 when she made the bold decision to board a passenger...
In the third of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Phyllis Leonie Harford and her drive to be accepted by Bermuda
In the second of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Edward Dyer, Bermuda’s first male nurse
Edward Dyer was one of seven children born to Kathlyn...
In the first of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Bermudian nurse Lorraine Lauretta Dyer-Bizek SRN, SCM, QN, HV, who braved war and moving to a n...
My childhood memories of Easter are filled with kite-flying on Good Friday, going to Sunday school and Easter dinner with my grandparents. There were also the feminine activities revolving around the ...
West End School is set on a slight plateau overlooking Scott’s Hill Road. Its old-world architecture is often taken for granted and few ever wonder who the builders were.
This school building was comp...
In the mid-1920s, St George’s businessman Henry E.A. Dowling, William Cooper MCP, W.R. Perinchief, Lorrie Williams and others met to discuss concerns regarding the quality of education afforded the ch...
The late Rosalind Robinson, a respected, retired school principal and the wife of the late Kenneth Robinson, PhD, likened the formation of the Bermuda Union of Teachers in February 1919 to “a phoenix ...
Lillian Minors, my godmother, has always described herself as a “mover and a shaker”. Her early years were as busy and industrious as her later years, and her skills as a businesswoman were identified...
