Banking giant HSBC yesterday celebrated ten years in Bermuda with a massive $500,000 donation to education.
HSBC donated $250,000 to the Reading Clinic and a further $250,000 to charity Knowledge Quest, which helps students struggling to pay for thei...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A quadriplegic who has spent a nightmare 40 years “incarcerated” on a hospital ward for elderly dementia patients could be moving to a new home.
Health chiefs have finally agreed to allow Luke Caines to move out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s...
Your child might have found the most sought after backpack and all the latest school supplies and tech gear, but are they actually prepared to enter through those classroom doors next week?
If you suspect their answer to that question would be ‘No’ ...
A top TV company has signed up with the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
And California-based ClearTV said its presence on the Island could lead to local link-ups, as well as boosting Bermuda’s image as a place to list a business.
ClearTV chief operating offi...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Bermuda Stock Exchange | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
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
