Bermuda College students staged a mass boycott of their campus cafeteria in a protest over prices yesterday.
According to Stephen Lightbourne, vice president of the student council, the action against the Buzz cafe will continue today.
Protest leader...
More than a dozen jobs have been cut as another global hedge fund administrator downsizes in Bermuda.
Citco Fund Services in Bermuda is cutting 15 to 20 jobs in what the company said was a “reorganisation” of its Bermuda office.
Also yesterday, the B...
DATE: Oct 18, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
If you have children you may want consider the average cost of a four-year degree at a college abroad could cost as much as $100,000 in the next several years.
And that’s just for a regular degree and doesn’t include housing and other costs.
Right no...
After I had spent my time in the Navy, and after I had been a neuropsychiatric technician in the Navy, I went home to Sacramento, California. Sacramento is a valley town. For a long time it was more of a town than a city. Even though it was the capit...
DATE: Oct 18, 2011 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Philip Brownell
It’s easy to imagine that having an incurable illness could make you depressed.
Having an incurable illness which carries a stigma, like AIDS and HIV, could make you even more depressed at least that’s what you might think.
There are no local stati...
Future forward. The best way to get a gauge on the future is to look at your grandchildren or other young folks if you have none of the former. What is critical for these young people who do represent our future is education and a strong set of value...
Colford Ferguson wasn’t due to spend the day with his daughter Ny’Ashia on her fourth birthday.
He turned up unannounced at her school on January 17 and then went to the home of her and her mother Nkosazana Wilson, before deciding to join them for a ...
The first in a series of motivational children’s books by footballer David Bascome has been launched.
The author presented a copy of ‘Don’t Miss the Bus!’ to Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith. The Minister hopes to distribute copies of the book ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Former Progressive Labour Party Senator Davida Morris is urging the people of Bermuda to change their materialistic ways, accusing them of thinking more about money than each other.
Ms Morris is calling on residents to start looking at money in a di...
The Crime Stoppers 5K Walk and Road Race takes place later this month.
Residents are now invited to sign up for the annual event which this year has a new route and a new category for persons aged 60 and older.
The event, which is sanctioned by the B...
