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Bermuda’s teaching union has slammed the Department of Education for its handling of the concerns of its members. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said that two meetings set to take place yesterday were postponed at the last minute. It added in a stat...

Dellwood Middle School pupils are expected back at their desks this morning after teachers took industrial action yesterday, when two long-term substitute teachers had their positions discontinued more than a month early. Parents were summoned to Del...

An information session to learn about a programme to help jobseekers in the hospitality industry will take place today. It comes ahead of the Learn-to-Earn programme, due to start next month, which pays participants while they train for careers in th...

Payouts for injured workers are to increase from April 1, more than nine years after the hike was approved by the House of Assembly. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said payments would go up from a maximum of $170 ...

A blame game has broken out after local construction firms claimed they were unpaid for months of work on the new power plant deemed “essential” for Bermuda’s energy future. Three Bermudian contractors, who spoke this week with The Royal Gazette unde...

Saturday evening marked the official close of the Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) Centennial celebrations. The date, February 1, 2020, was observed with a modest ceremony at the BUT headquarters at 72 Teacher’s Place on Church Street which officially...

As you might guess from this week’s photo, I recently attended the Bermuda Caledonian Society’s annual Burns’ Supper. Dedicated to perpetuating the immortal memory of the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert “Rabbie” Burns who lived from 1759 — 1796, t...

Teaching assistants could be in line for a pay rise in the next Budget in the wake of proper job descriptions being finalised after more than 20 years. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said it was “reasonably optimistic” that a wage increase for classro...

A statistician and antiracism campaigner has been appointed as chairman of a group which will pave the way for a living wage in Bermuda. Cordell Riley will lead the wage commission, community minister Lovitta Foggo announced in the House yesterday. M...

A Bermudian teenager and her fellow Amnesty International club members demanded “justice” for a young woman who died at a US treatment centre after she was referred there by the island’s child protection agency. Sierra Brangman, who grew up in foster...

Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the CFA Society of Bermuda to present a “lunch and learn” session on changes to the island’s pension legislation. Peter Sousa, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Pension Commission, will discuss the ...

Your life is not about you. It’s about everyone else whose life you touch, and the ways in which you touch it — Neale Donald Walsch As regular readers of this column may be aware, the more I progress through life the more I try to emulate the behavi...