151638 results returned for search: "" category "News"
The chairman of an insurance company group has been appointed as an independent member of the Senate, it was announced this morning.
John Wight, the chief executive officer at BF&M, will fill the seat vacated by James Jardine, who stepped down after ...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Industrial Union is to meet former staff of the Fairmont Southampton hotel today to discuss their unpaid redundancy money.
Hotel workers from the hotel are facing financial hardship because of delays in the payouts which were due on Octob...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A young lawyer started a new chapter in his life after he was Called to the Bar last week.
William Finnerty, 23, told a courtroom at the Government Administration Building that the he overcame the demands of university and work with the help of his f...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A six-month ban on work permits for an expanded range of job categories was an expected move from the Government, the Bermuda Employers’ Council said yesterday.
Keith Jensen, the president of the BEC, said that the group was “not surprised, in the cu...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Speech from the Throne sounds impressive — it is meant to be — and far less ceremonial than the ceremony in which it is wrapped. It is the centrepiece of a longstanding parliamentary tradition that marks the opening of a new legislative session; ...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Politics
|
AUTHOR:
John Barritt
A man will be sentenced next month after he admitted the theft of a bicycle from a restaurant storage room.
Jason Liburd, 50, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to trespassing on to Port-O-Call in Hamilton and the theft of a $300 bicycle.
The court...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The deadline for public consultation on the introduction of controversial 5G technology will not be extended, it was announced yesterday.
The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda confirmed that the November 23 deadline will remain, despite appeals from c...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A sculpture to honour one of Bermuda’s musical giants has been given place of pride outside the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
The Talbot Brothers were international calypso stars in the late 1940s and 1950s, and a popular act through to the 1970...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A lawyer asked the Court of Appeal yesterday to allow a lawsuit against the Department of Child and Family Services to go ahead after it was struck out by an Acting Assistant Justice who had not been sworn in.
Simone Smith Bean told the Court of Appe...
DATE: Nov 04, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Remembrance Day holiday next week will push government’s garbage collection schedule back a day, the Ministry of Public Works announced tonight.
A ministry spokesman explained that garbage will not be collected on the holiday, which falls next We...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
News
|
AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
