255735 results returned for search: "" category "Other"
Almost 2,000 hotel staff have been laid off as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday.
Stephen Todd, the BHA and Hotel Employers of Bermuda chief executive officer, said: “The members of the Bermuda Hotel Asso...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Colin Thompson
A Bermudian Olympian said yesterday it was inevitable that the Olympic Games would be postponed after Australia and Canada said they would not participate in Tokyo this summer.
Tyrone Smith, a long jumper and three-times competitor at the Olympics, s...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The historic Newport Bermuda Race is to be cancelled for the first time in 80 years, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club said yesterday.
Organisers added that the race — axed because of the Covid-19 pandemic — was last abandoned in 1940 under the gathering ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Despite COVID-19 uncertainty, the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) is reminding local entrepreneurs the deadline for applications to its Experience Investment Programme closes a week today, Tuesday, March 31.
The current intake aims to recruit the be...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Press Release
HSBC Bermuda’s Harbourview branch will be open for limited hours, effective today.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the centre’s hours will be 9am to 1pm until further notice.
“For the safety of clients and staff, we will continue to restrict...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Business Staff
The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts, the Bermuda Piano Festival and the Bermuda School of Music are pleased to announce that the Bermuda Festival will now be presenting the Bermuda Piano Festival.
The Piano Festival was launched in 2017 by...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Press Release
Clarien announced that banking operating hours will be amended in order to provide essential banking services only.
Only the bank’s Hamilton branch on Reid Street, will be open.
Effective March 25, opening hours will be 9am to 1 pm. The bank added ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Business Staff
A financial safety net for people left out of work due to Covid-19 was today backed by a charity for families.
Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the unemployment scheme announced by Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, w...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A private school has cancelled exams in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bermuda High School said that international examination bodies had pulled the plug on Cambridge and Pearson/Edexcel IGCSE and GCSE examinations worldwide have also been cancel...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda’s athletes have reflected on the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer because of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The Games, which were scheduled to start on July 24, will now be held “no later than summer 2021”, the Internatio...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
