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Bermuda has passed its original 70 per cent herd immunity target for vaccinations, the latest Government figures have revealed. The Government website showed 70.2 per cent of the population had received two shots and 16.8 per cent had received a boos...

Public schools will no longer have entire classes quarantined if a Covid-19 case is detected, the education minister said yesterday. Diallo Rabain added the school surveillance unit will instead contact people found to be close or casual contacts and...

The head teacher of Bermuda High School for Girls will step down at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, it was announced today. Linda Parker confirmed in a letter to parents that she would retire in July 2023 after a 40-year career in education and...

An industrial dispute about overtime payments to school custodians was settled yesterday, The Royal Gazette has learned. About 25 public school custodians downed tools and gathered at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters yesterday morning afte...

International businesses have donated $281,000 to buy fast coronavirus tests for public schools. The money will be used to buy more than 99,000 lateral flow test kits, which allow users to test themselves for the coronavirus and give results inside 1...

Pupils and prisoners have been helped by a community group that launched campaigns to provide computers and books. The Grateful Bread rallied supporters, who paid for 20 Chromebooks for children and donated boxes of books to Westgate inmates. The gro...

A deputy principal known as the “heartbeat” of Clearwater Middle School was today revealed as the winner of Bermuda Education Network’s 2021 Outstanding Teacher Award. Dean Foggo, a business studies teacher and deputy principal at the school, was nam...

A total of 31 public schools have reopened their classrooms to pupils, the education ministry has revealed. The news came as the Department of Health confirmed that a risk assessment was carried out at West Pembroke Primary School, which was potentia...

Staff and parents at a primary school were alerted yesterday to a potential exposure to the coronavirus. A letter from the office of the Chief Medical Officer revealed there was a possible risk at West Pembroke Primary School. It said that the Minist...

Schoolchildren will get a free hot and filling breakfast delivered to their homes as part of a one-day national campaign by a charity. The Coalition for the Protection of Children launched its first National Breakfast Day and is scheduled to hand out...

Four pupils and one school staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus. The results were received during the testing programme rolled out for the return of in-school learning. As of Monday, students and staff from 12 schools had been teste...

Three public schools have reopened their classrooms and 18 others have crossed the Covid-19 screening threshold to return to in-person teaching. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said 21 of the islands 36 schools had received more than the 80...