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The pandemic is full of uncertainty, but 34 entrepreneurs turned up for Ignite’s fifth cohort, looking for help launching new businesses or building existing ones.
Ignite kicked off a two-day boot camp last week, the start of its annual five-month b...
DATE: Jan 20, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Several well-known insurance industry executives have joined forces to launch Swiftly, a global technology company, with operations in Bermuda and the United States.
The new company will be focused on driving down insurance costs while improving cust...
DATE: Jan 20, 2022
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Local Business
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
The isolation of the pandemic has caused many people to focus more on their own homes.
As a result, business has been booming for Frias Carpentry, a local company that installs readymade kitchens for other businesses such as Sticks and Stones, Atlas...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Digicel Group is looking for creative problem solvers, with a knack for solutions-oriented thinking to participate in the first cohort of the Digicel Graduate Programme — two-year training to develop the next generation of inspiring and innovative le...
DATE: Jan 19, 2022
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Local Business
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
As business owners, Greg Hopkins and Paulo Medeiros have survived some hard times.
They opened the Winners Edge bike shop during the 1992 recession, and rode out another recession a few years later. Still, the duo call their challenges during the pa...
DATE: Jan 17, 2022
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Local Business
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
Eurocar on Woodlands Road in Pembroke was still showing the Christmas spirit this week, when they donated $7,500 to local charities.
Eurocar president Richard Davidge and son Stephen Davidge, general manager, handed over $2,500 cheques to Windreach R...
DATE: Jan 14, 2022
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Local Business
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
A new store opening in Hamilton will be offering everything from cheap children’s clothing, and cribs to short-term car seat rentals, all for a good cause.
Friends of Hospice, the charity that funds Agape House in Paget, will be opening thrift and co...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Lots of businesses have a strategic plan, but the sad reality is that very few actually execute them.
“Sometimes carrying out the strategic plan becomes a little overwhelming for small business owners,” said Lennox Cumberbatch, an accountant at Abacu...
DATE: Dec 29, 2021
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Cambridge Beaches executive chef Keith DeShields crafted something extra special to wow hotel guests this holiday — a 7ft-tall gingerbread house.
“These past few years have been a strain on everyone and this Christmas I wanted to make it a grand one,...
DATE: Dec 28, 2021
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Veteran underwriter Kate Vacher was looking for her next challenge earlier this year.
She was on the original team for start-up Aspen Insurance in 2002, and was promoted to group director of underwriting there four years later.
But after Apollo Mana...
DATE: Dec 23, 2021
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Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy