America’s Cup organisers have asked Bermuda rival San Diego for thousands of free hotel nights worth $2.75 million in the run up to the 2017 races.
But San Diego Tourism Marketing District board members are said to be against the idea.
The San Diego ...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Belco has donated $165,000 toward education for local students who showed themselves to be “gifted, dedicated and ready to make a real contribution to the Bermuda community”.
Belco president and CEO Walter Higgins commended the 2014-2015 recipients o...
Johnny Barnes has the potential to become a regular visitor to the winner’s enclosure after the bay colt’s success on his first sighting of a racecourse a fortnight ago.
That is the assertion of Simon Scupham, the chairman of Bermuda Thoroughbred Rac...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Stephen Wright
To be unemployed, and hence poor, in Bermuda in 2014 must be one of the most miserable of experiences. A job is not only a source of income, critical as that is, but it is also a measure of one’s worth to society, a place to make friends, an opportun...
Dear Carla: We are SO ANNOYED. A family member’s “other” parent is adamant of leaving the child in a private nursery / preschool when the child is old enough to go to FREE Government pre-school. The “other parent” has a steady job and a steady inco...
A total of $7500 has been awarded to two students by Hamilton Parish Council.
Sarai Hines won a Members’ Scholarship worth $5000, while Jashun Bean was awarded a bursary of $2500.
Ms Hines is studying fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Art...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A Bermuda private school has notched up its best results ever in English school exams.
Pupils at the Bermuda High School for Girls recorded a 100 per cent pass rate in the 2013/14 round of the exams — formerly known as O Levels.
A total of 21 per cen...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Determined Clearwater Middle School students are celebrating their hard work, after giving up holiday time to tackle the IGCSE maths exams years earlier than their year Senior 2 counterparts.
Seventeen pupils at the East End School sat the exams in M...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Education and Economic Development Minister Grant Gibbons said yesterday the Registrar of Companies’ data on new company incorporations for the second quarter of 2014 continues to show a strong positive trend in the number of new company registration...
DATE: Aug 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Rebecca Zuill
A new Commissioner of Education will not be in place in time for the beginning of the new school year.
The post has remained vacant since April when Dr Edmond Heatley resigned from the position. Dr Lou Matthews will continue as Acting Commissioner as...
