479 results returned for search: "education AND " author Jessie Moniz Hardy
The life insurance industry in Bermuda is set for growth but it needs more boots on the ground.
This was the word from industry leaders in a panel on Bermuda’s role in the growing life insurance sector, during the second day of the Bermuda Risk Summi...
DATE: Mar 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
A Bermudian mother-daughter duo could soon see their vegan hair care products on shelves at Target, one of the largest big box stores in the US.
But Gina Spence, and her daughter, Isis Benjamin, need $450,000 to ramp up manufacture and marketing for...
DATE: Feb 24, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Colin Young is one of the few remaining survivors of a deadly fire at Mount Allison University eighty years ago.
Four students died, countless others were injured throwing themselves from upper level windows to escape the blaze.
“It was the early hou...
DATE: Feb 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
At 16, Kameron Young conducted a genetic study. At 17 she spent a year in Spain becoming fluent in Spanish. At 19, she was a virtual intern with a Columbian tech company.
Now, in her first year in Queen Mary University of London’s biomedical engineer...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Ten years ago Trevor Johnstone never would have imagined he would one day become vegan.
But at 35 he has fully embraced the lifestyle and, through his company Plant Based Fuel BDA, offers his skills as a "plant-based chef and nutrition advocate".
His...
DATE: Jan 12, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Food & Wine
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
As a young police officer in England, George Hammond had his pick of British colonies to apply for work.
He chose Bermuda on a whim, although he didn’t really know where it was.
“That was the one that stuck out for me,” the 85-year-old said. “I took ...
DATE: Jan 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Scarlett Smale trailed behind as her classmates learnt how to read in Primary Two.
Her mother, Heather, had an inkling of what the problem might be.
Scarlett’s father, Nick, and her grandfather Richard Kitson are dyslexic; her great uncle, Kirk Kits...
DATE: Nov 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Geoff Tomlinson has not lived in Bermuda since 1975 but still reads The Royal Gazette every day and regularly checks out the weather on the Dockyard webcam.
He describes his six years here as magical.
He was teaching in Cambridgeshire, England in the...
DATE: Nov 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public.
She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake.
“My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Community
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Jill Amos Raine has painted and sold art in St George's since 1975.
So it made sense to her, when her husband David died in 2004, to sell their Devonshire property and move to Convict Bay.
“People told me not to make any major decisions for the firs...
DATE: Oct 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
