April 20, 2011
Dear Sir,
For all those people in Bermuda who call for the death penalty to be reintroduced as capital punishment for murder, as a “deterrent” to such violent crime, specifically as a result of the most recent murder of David Clarke an...
DATE: Apr 21, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Raj Rajaratnam’s week-long defence at his insider trading trial amounted to a blizzard of numbers, graphs and documents.
Some litigation experts said the “data dump” strategy was an effort to convince the jury that Rajaratnam, wh...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: International Business |
Another weekend, another murder.
The shooting death, almost assassination style, of David Clarke on Sunday night is yet another sign that the violent crime which has afflicted Bermuda for the last 18 months is not over and may be entering a new phas...
A new education initiative has been launched through a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Education and Capital G bank.
Donations will be made to the Reading Clinic and Menuhin Foundation while scholarships for middle school students ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A pilot e-mail system is coming online in Bermuda’s public schools, the Ministry of Education has announced.
E-mail accounts are to be set up for senior and middle school students as well as those in primary five and six.
Students can use the Live[AT...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s air ambulance has asked Bermuda Hospitals Board to put right comments it says imply it’s unsafe or incompetent.
Bermuda Air Medivac has called in Phoenix Law Chambers in response to BHB’s assertion it needs international certification to be...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Bermuda now has a generation of children who are lacking in listening skills because they spend too much time e-mailing and texting.
This is the view of overseas expert Jenny Mosley who spent a week on the Island to spread the word about the importa...
MANHATTAN (Bloomberg) - Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group LLC co-founder at the centre of largest crackdown on hedge-fund insider trading in US history, rested his case without taking the witness stand.
Defence lawyers told US District Judge Richard ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: International Business |
Increasing numbers of people are reporting they’ve been unemployed a long time, according to retail boss Kristi Grayston.
As Government continues to refuse to provide unemployment figures, Ms Grayston said anecdotal evidence suggests the tally is con...
DATE: Apr 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Bermuda needs to create a better social contract by creating jobs through a strengthened economy and improved education system,
Shadow National Security Minister Michael Dunkley said yesterday. Senator Dunkley said the only way to tackle gang cultur...
DATE: Apr 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
