With the shaky economy, job seekers are becoming increasingly creative in their search. Here in Bermuda, an innovative approach was taken by Laureen Bassett who took to the streets with a one-woman campaign to let potential employers know that she wo...
A prime example of a company really getting involved at a community level is Bermuda CableVision.
This year the company’s philanthropic work has centred on its Community Service Award programme now in its sixth year with the presentation of an award ...
I must confess to having spent much of the past ten days trying to put mysef back together again after having been “blown away” by reading and trying to assess Graham Foster’s book, “Hall of History: Bermuda’s Story in Art”.
Probably I’ll never fatho...
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November 22, 2011
Dear Sir,
Ignorance is bliss.
Wayne Furbert is absolutely right. You should not print comparative murder rates that show Bermuda in a bad light. Or at the very least if you print them, locate them in a little read sect...
DATE: Dec 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Discipline is needed
December 6, 2011
Dear Sir,
Would you indulge and let me weigh into the blazer debate. On the surface, the story is about the school blazer. But the real story is about discipline or the lack thereof.
Every aspect of life involve...
DATE: Dec 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Hire qualified Bermudians
December 20, 2011
Dear Sir,
After listening to “Let’s Talk” on Monday evening I could not help thinking “The executives/personnel of these international companies are highly intelligent, highly skilled, highly trained and hi...
DATE: Dec 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Bermuda should be able to roll out its own Operation CeaseFire by April or May and may even have a national summit on gangs in 2012, National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief has revealed.
He told The Royal Gazette he was convinced his Ministry and...
DATE: Dec 23, 2011 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The UK would have stepped in and provided the funds to tackle gun violence in Bermuda if 16 white men had been shot dead since May 2009, according to National Security Minister Wayne Perinchief.
Mr Perinchief made the remark during an interview with ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2011 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The parent company of one of Bermuda’s largest reinsurance brokers has reached a $16.3 million settlement over the charge of improper payments to foreign government officials to obtain overseas contracts.
According to the US Securities and Exchange C...
Many of us get bogged down with the commercial aspects of the Christmas holiday, but there seem to be even more who remember the deeper meaning behind the day.
For at least one week of the year, people tend to put their petty differences aside and r...
