When Alexander Butterfield completes his university education in the US he should be well-placed to enter the world of big business, and he can thank a Bermuda-based reinsurance for giving him a helping hand to cover the cost of enrolling at Georgia ...
DATE: Aug 31, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
The death of a landscaper struck by a large branch that fell from a tree he was helping to lop has brought renewed calls for stricter controls on the training and certification of workers involved in potentially dangerous jobs.
The owners of two of t...
DATE: Aug 30, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Three talented Bermudians pursuing arts studies overseas have received a financial boost from the Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society?s Charitable Trust, which has just awarded each of them a $5000 bursary towards their tuition.
They are Kerri-Lynn Di...
Bermudian Laurion Burchall has decided to pay back $54,000 of scholarship funding he received in the early 1990s so that another student may be given the same hand-up to pursue their university goal.
Without the financial assistance of two Bank of Be...
DATE: Aug 29, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Use our noise lawsAugust 23, 2006
Dear Sir,I write in full support of Chick-of-the Village’s letter regarding noise pollution. Where are all the Police Officers? Are they blind and deaf? The Vancouver Police Force has recently equipped some of their ...
Use our noise laws
August 23, 2006
Dear Sir,
I write in full support of Chick-of-the Village?s letter regarding noise pollution. Where are all the Police Officers? Are they blind and deaf? The Vancouver Police Force has recently equipped some of thei...
he youngest MP in the House of Assembly is considering quitting politics after the next election.
Jamahl Simmons, 35, told : "When I first got involved in politics I always believed you should have a point where you stop and re-assess. I had a self-i...
A statement by new United Bermuda Party candidate Mark Pettingill on the plight of young black men in Bermuda has drawn ire from the Progressive Labour Party, but UBP Leader Wayne Furbert has responded saying the PLP has cast an unwarranted interpret...
DATE: Aug 28, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
US President Bill Clinton pledged to "end welfare as we know it" when elected in 1992. But he vetoed two Welfare Reform bills before signing one in August, 1996, just before his re-election.
Arguably, no law has had such a positive national impact si...
Inspirational US teacher Ron Clark is to speak at a one-day conference aimed at galvanising all those working in Bermuda?s public education system, can reveal.
Rosemary Tyrrell, the Ministry of Education?s new Permanent Secretary, has organised the e...
DATE: Aug 28, 2006 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
