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More than 500 schoolchildren will get breakfast packages after two organisations joined forces yesterday. Bermuda Is Love and the Coalition for the Protection of Children spent several hours preparing the meals at Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club to ensure ...

A computer coding scheme will be launched across the island as part of a new initiative by the Ministry of Education. Lingo STEM Coding Kit lessons will be introduced at senior schools as part of an effort to improve STEM — science, technology, e...

The first signature school programmes are on schedule to start in September, the education minister told the House of Assembly. Diallo Rabain said financial technology, vet sciences, medical sciences and automotive technology will be among the subje...

The Government’s new quarantine policy for close and casual contacts in schools is “overly complex, discriminatory and coercive”, a parents’ pressure group has claimed. A spokeswoman for Us For Them Bermuda said: “Rather than a pragmatic policy on ho...

Regulations for quarantine of Covid-19 contacts in schools have been changed, the education minister revealed yesterday. Diallo Rabain said in a letter to senior education staff that vaccinated people who tested positive for the coronavirus would hav...

Submission rates for Covid-19 antigen testing remain at only 57 per cent for students and 50 per cent for staff in public schools, the Ministry of Education has said. The ministry urged parents and staff to take up the testing to increase these figu...

Capital spending is expected to be almost $20 million less in the next financial year than was first estimated for 2021-22, the Premier said. David Burt told the House of Assembly that $73 million was earmarked for 2022-23 – including $51 million for...

Dear Sir, Whatever is going on in Bermuda’s schools, it is not working. Parents are frustrated and, looking to the rest of the world to compare policies, we do not like what we see. Cayman Islands, with a similar population and number of hospital bed...

Younger schoolchildren will no longer have to wear masks in classes from Monday

The education minister yesterday apologised for “any discomfort caused” by a social media post that suggested all those around him were losing their heads and blaming him. Diallo Rabain made the post – a quote from If, a poem by British writer Rudya...

Covid-19 safety precautions in public schools could be relaxed as early as next week, the Minister of Education said yesterday. Diallo Rabain gave few details of planned changes, but promised he would release more information in the House of Assembly...

Children between the ages of 5 and 11 will be able to get the paediatric version of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in the near future, the health department announced last night. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said supplies of the vaccine for child...