During the Christmas recess of the House of Parliament, I have taken time to read the four long overdue annual reports of the Human Rights Commission. Many of you will know that I am a former executive officer of the Human Rights Commission and I hav...
IN a bold move Bermuda is entering a full archery squad for the Island Games next year — although team manager Jeane Butterfield admits the side is far from settled.She is hoping hotshots Paul Harshaw and Alan Blakemore will make the trip to Rhodes b...
FORMER United Bermuda Party Cabinet Minister Bill Cox says Premier Ewart Brown should thank backbencher Dr. Grant Gibbons for drawing the Government's attention to the stringent conditions of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act rather than excoriati...
Alphonse Nkunzimana has spent the past few years of his life battling against the odds tackling horrific levels of child slavery in poverty-stricken Haiti.
The aid worker has seen first hand how hundreds of thousands of young Haitians are forced to g...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
EIGHTEEN young men and women recently stepped outside their comfort zone by boarding the Spirit of Bermuda for a week-long intensive training programme at sea. This life transforming experience challenged them towards a path of self-discovery wrought...
FORMER United Bermuda Party Cabinet Minister Bill Cox says Premier Ewart Brown should thank backbencher Dr. Grant Gibbons for drawing the Government's attention to the stringent conditions of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act rather than excoriati...
Alphonse Nkunzimana has spent the past few years of his life battling against the odds tackling horrific levels of child slavery in poverty-stricken Haiti.
The aid worker has seen first hand how hundreds of thousands of young Haitians are forced to g...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
EVERYONE has dreams and hopes when a new year starts. And Bermuda’s athletes, coaches and administrators are no different that the rest of us. So this week The Mid-Ocean News asked a variety of sports people what they were hoping for in 2007.
THERE are some who would like to characterise the recent Parliamentary flare-up between Premier Ewart Brown and Opposition backbencher Dr. Grant Gibbons as a defining moment in modern Bermudian race relations. While the pointed exchange may or may no...
Bermuda has the third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of the 113 countries given ratings by renowned analysts Standard & Poor?s (S&P).
And the S&P report on the Island, a copy of which was obtained by The Royal Gazette, showed the lev...
DATE: Dec 28, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
