Twenty years ago, Freshta Raper, a young teacher in the Iraqi town of Halabja, hid two students who had taken part in a protest against the government in a cupboard in her classroom.
It was a decision which was to have life-changing consequences. Sol...
Aunt Hilda Marie Smith is one of those chosen few blessed to be around to mark their 100th birthday.
At the celebrations on Sunday for this veteran former day school principal and Sunday School teacher, she was hailed as a God-fearing, praying woman,...
There are few people around who are better known, and maybe solely known by their first names.
Kenyetta is one of them. Big, burly, bearded and black, and much blunter in his younger days than now, for the past 30 years he has been one of the most pr...
Freemasons of the Irish Constitution in Bermuda have dominated the local spotlight for the past week or more.
Their brethren have been hosting the Hon. Leslie A. Lewis, the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Wor. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepte...
GOVERNMENT is set to spend around $70 million on consultancy fees this financial year ¿ an increase of 150 per cent in the past ten years.
The bill, which has ballooned dramatically in the last two years alone, has prompted the Opposition United Ber...
DATE: Oct 28, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
China is among the world's fastest-growing economies. Shanghai and Shenzhen are home to its hottest stock market. Now many investors regard the evolving Asian behemoth as the antidote to a slowing US economy, picking up the slack in global growth as ...
Bermudian Dr. Malcolm Brock is ultra-modest about his rise to the top in medicine — from his studies in the UK to his current career at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Baltimore.
Last week, Dr. Brock, 43, who hails from Cox's Hill in Pembroke, was on the ...
Young drummers led a procession through the streets of the west end yesterday as a school celebrated its 80th anniversary.
Sandys Secondary Middle School invited two surviving members of its first ever class — Hope Bascome and Miriam Wilson-Trott — t...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The United Bermuda Party will next week unveil a more inclusive approach to helping all Bermudians get ahead at work after labelling Government's bid to focus on black Bermudians as an election ploy.
This week former Cabinet Minister Patrice Minors u...
Current and former students met to honour the oldest living Berkeleyite at the 110th anniversary of the Berkeley Institute.
The school was founded in 1897 and has produced countless leaders in a variety of fields, including four Premiers and hundreds...