Firefighters may have to be recruited from abroad for the first time due to disastrous attempts to find suitable local candidates.
The last recruitment drive by Bermuda Fire Service attracted 83 applicants — but just three passed the entrance tests a...
DATE: Apr 01, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Participants in the Ministry of Culture and Social Rehabilitation's Community Education and Development Programme now have the option to register for courses online.
"This milestone is another among the many success stories that the Community Educati...
Ask and you might receive, but not always on the Hill, Mr. Editor, especially when it comes to parliamentary questions. Readers who have been following along will know that I recently asked a set of questions about those consultants who have been hir...
Premier Ewart Brown this afternoon announced the CEO of the Bermuda Hospitality Institute.
Karla Lacey is to take the helm of the training institute, which aims to encourage more Bermudians to enter the hospitality industry.
Ms Lacey is a former assi...
LONDON (AP) — Bloomsbury Publishing PLC reported a 36 percent fall in net profit for 2009 — its first year without a new hardback or paperback Harry Potter release — but said that other best-sellers had given a boost to the start of trading this year...
The PLP is not planning to punish backbenchers Wayne Perinchief and Randy Horton for voting against a bill presented by Premier Ewart Brown in the House of Assembly.
The pair spoke out on March 17 against legislation which would have allowed Deputy P...
DATE: Mar 31, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Association of Bermuda International Companies chairman David Ezekiel and XL Capital Ltd.'s CEO Mike McGavick have been named among the winners for the Bermuda Insurance Institute's (BII) 12th Annual Insurance Industry Awards next month.
The reci...
A few months ago there was a big flap in the news in the United States, because Jay Leno's show was not doing well in the ratings, and the network wanted to put him back into the slot then occupied by Conan O'Brien.
Negotiations followed, and O'Brien...
Since entering the political fray in a 2002 by-election, Pembroke MP Ashfield DeVent has repeatedly warned a failure to take action against drugs would have dire consequences for Bermuda.
Here are some of his public comments:
November 2002: "I guess ...
DATE: Mar 30, 2010 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Lama al-Sulaiman, a 43-year-old Saudi Arabian businesswoman, was elected deputy chairman of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry in December.
That might not be news in most places. It was in her country, where al-Sulaiman is the first female t...
