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Kingsway primary students evaluate the amount of waste they generate
Kingsway Academy's lower primary school students and teachers have taken on the challenge to minimize the impact they have on the environment through proper waste management by being more mindful of how they generate garbage and where it goes, and as a result, the school was recently awarded the distinction of being the pilot school for the Innovative Science "Where does the garbage go?" project.
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New programme to tackle childhood obesity
New programme to tackle childhood obesity
By NOELLE NICOLLS
Tribune Staff Reporter
nnicolls@tribunemedia.net
HEALTH professionals are teaming up to tackle the problem of childhood obesity, which they say is a growing concern in the Bahamas.
Darren Bastian, business development manager at Atlantic Medical Insurance, said insurers and health industry workers are seeing an increase in the number of children with diseases traditionally co...
Learning beyond the three R's
Learning beyond the three R's
Going to school will never be the same again for five-year-old Reiyah Gibson. When the kindergartener eagerly hops out of her parents' car, it's with all the fun thoughts of reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic she will engage in during the school day, but before she gets to the issue of formal education, there's another bit of "school stuff" she has to take care of -- and that's tending to her vegeta...
More Than 2,000 Students To Be Added to National Breakfast Program
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - The National School Breakfast Pilot Programme is expanding and will service an additional two thousand students.
School breakfast programme expanded to five more schools
MORE than 2,000 students will receive free meals with the expansion of the National School Breakfast Pilot Programme in five more schools, according to Education Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin.
Breakfast Program Expanded
Breakfast Program Expanded
NASSAU, BAHAMAS —The Ministry of Education's National School Breakfast pilot program is being expanded to five additional schools in eastern and western New Providence. Minister of Education Glenys Hanna-Martin during a press conference Friday, said that since the implementation, attendance in the participating schools has shot up by 3.9 percent in New Providence and 7.2 [...]
Letter to the Editor: Feeding the children is powerdul
Editor, Governments came and left, and prime ministers and many who espoused looking out for the vulnerable pretended to care but showed no interest. Their deeds spoke loudly for them. In recent memory, no gesture has spoken so loudly about our children and their well-being as the National School Breakfast Pilot Programme, which has been implemented [...]
Healthy Buildings to be explored at upcoming Green Tech initiative
Healthy or sustainable buildings, an emerging concept, is one of the disciplines that participants in an upcoming Green Tech programme will be exposed to; the initiative was officially launched at the University of The Bahamas Friday, February 23, 2024
The Integration of Sailing in Schools is a Significant Leap Forward for Junior Sailing says Minister
The Integration of Sailing in Schools is a Significant Leap Forward for Junior Sailing says Minister
The Hon. Clay Sweeting, Minister of Works and Family Island Affairs on Monday underscored the government’s commitment to youth empowerment as his ministry strengthened its partnership with the Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training (MOETVT) through its recently launched Co-Curricular Activities Programme.
The Integration of Sailing in Schools is a Significant Leap Forward for Junior Sailing says Minister
The Integration of Sailing in Schools is a Significant Leap Forward for Junior Sailing says Minister
The Hon. Clay Sweeting, Minister ofWorks and Family Island Affairs on Monday underscored the government’s commitment to youth empowerment as his ministry strengthened its partnership with the Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training (MOETVT) through its recently launched Co-Curricular Activities Programme.