n orphanage largely funded by the kindness of Bermudians is now up and running in Kampala, Uganda providing a home to ten children.
Children in the Restorers of Hope orphanage sleep nine to a bedroom in triple-decker bunks luxury compared to their pr...
The recently signed Pension Protection Act of 2006 is composed of almost 1,000 pages of text concerning new pension plan rules and retirement tax breaks. A few more prominent features of the new law follow.
Your company pension plan could be the sour...
Ten of Bermuda’s brightest students planning careers in the insurance industry were presented with $390,000 in scholarships from the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) this year - courtesy of the XL Foundation. Over the last 10 years sin...
As a Bermuda Registered Charity, the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS) is solely funded through pledges and donations. These come mainly from insurance companies, but also include those who do business with and for the insurance sector,...
To provide emotional support is the primary aim of the Alzheimer’s Family Support Group which meets once a month in the activities’ lounge of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
“We are a gathering of persons who have lived or cared for someone wi...
With ?Sustainable Development? a hot topic at the moment, the education department of the Bermuda Zoological Society (BZS) is doing its part to up the public?s information with a special course to be conducted by the Island?s leading scientific exper...
The new Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army says it is engaged in a root-and-branch analysis of Bermuda?s social problems, in a bid to address them more effectively.
Maj. Doug Lewis took over from Maj. Lindsay Rowe in June. He and his wife Bet...
The total amount of cannabis believed to have been brought into Bermuda by yacht in a drugs plot was estimated to be worth $45 million, a prosecutor alleged in Supreme Court yesterday.
No drugs were ever found on board the sailboat , and no-one convi...
It's potpourri week. Every now and then, my computer fills up with ideas that don't make it to column length. Rather than waste them, I accumulate them and, well, you get the idea. Here we go.
Chinese people save something ridiculous like 42 percent ...
February 23, 2006
THE continuing whitewashing of Fidel Castro's totalitarian regime and its racist policies by his Bermudian supporters sickens me. The execution of three blacks by a Cuban government firing squad in 2003 for attempting to hijack a bo...
