153477 results returned for search: "" category "News"
Works Minister Derrick Burgess this morning gave details on a programme to train young people in horticultural skills.
Under the Railway Trail Hiring Initiative, it’s hoped 24 people will become trained and certified in horticulture, and improve thei...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A rise in mumps cases has prompted concern from Chief Medical Officer John Cann.
Several cases have been reported so far this year, compared to an average of less than one per year for the previous decade, according to a press release from the Depart...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Health
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Tourism Minister Patrice Minors is ready to put aside her personal anti-gambling views for the good of the Country.
The politician has said she will start pushing for casinos in Bermuda if most residents agree it is the best way forward for tourism. ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Tourism
|
Leonard Czarnecki was today named as the new general manager of the Fairmont Hamilton Princess.
He replaces Jonathan Crellin, who left the resort earlier this summer.
Mr Czarnecki, who took up his new post on August 1, brings more than 20 years’ expe...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
One of Bermuda’s most recognisable runners, supermarket boss Giorgio Zanol, is to run a marathon on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain Everest.
At 70 years old he is set to become be the oldest athlete ever to tackle the marathon on the ‘roof...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Dockworkers appear set to find out whether they’ll face temporary redundancies as their union dispute comes to a head.
It’s understood dock managers Stevedoring had offered to postpone layoffs if Bermuda Industrial Union called off the overtime ban, ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
National team cricketer George O’Brien Jr told a jury his friend Demitrius Gibbons chopped him with a machete, leaving his arm “wide open and bleeding.”
According to Mr O’Brien, the attack came on the evening of July 19 last year, after he and Mr Gib...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
Bermuda Public Services Union has vowed “a public demonstration of epic proportions” if the Berkeley Institute’s board of governors go ahead with a proposal to cut more than half the school’s support staff.
BPSU vice president Jason Hayward said yest...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Education
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The National Tourism Plan has been delayed until the new year with Tourism Minister Patrice Minors vowing to “leave no stone unturned”.
The long-term master plan, which was originally due to be completed this summer then delayed until October, has no...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Tourism
|
A 36-year-old woman stripped naked at LF Wade International Airport after she was informed that Customs officers wanted to search her, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Loukai Phillips, who was in a public area in the airport’s Customs hall at the time, yest...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
|
CATEGORY:
Crime
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
