Acting Health Minister Walter Lister has cited tobacco use as the number one killer in Bermuda. He said that smoking related deaths exceed the combined total of those due to suicide, AIDS, road traffic accidents and homicide.
The announcement came on...
Becoming a minister is getting easier for Bermudians as theology schools offer distance learning programmes.
?Atlantic School of Theology (AST) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is only as far away as your computer these days. We are just a click away,? said ...
YOU'VE been reading about fellow Bermudians doing some very exciting things . . . climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, racing across the Sahara, challenging fellow Olympians in Greece. Now, perhaps you've decided your travel life needs a bit more adventure as...
NICE work if you can get it, Mr. Editor, sitting in the House on the Hill. The Man in charge, and that would be the Premier, told MPs late last Friday night that we would be going on an eight-week sojourn from debate and not return until Friday, May ...
ESG Re opens $60 million suit against Deloitte & Touche
Bermuda-based ESG Re has launched a $60 million dollar negligence claim against auditing firm Deloitte & Touche in the Bermuda, Ireland and the US.
Although registered in Bermuda, ESG Re operate...
March 17, 2005
Dear Sir,
Re: The many articles based on foreign/ long term resident workers taking Bermudian jobs. Based primarily on Parks and Works staff striking.
I am half Swedish, and have always been interested in the dynamics of social interac...
Asthma is a huge problem in Bermuda affecting around one in four pre-schoolers, one in six older children and one in ten adults.
The incidence of asthma is rising and has been reaching epidemic levels as in other developed countries around the world....
The Bermuda Independence Commission public meetings will start next week, with the first one scheduled on Thursday, March 24 at the Warwick Workman's Club.
The commission will be taking written and oral submissions at the meeting. Yesterday chairman ...
THE Honourable Jennifer M. Smith Scholarship was announced yesterday ? a collaboration between the former Premier's alma mater, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and the National Training Board (NTB).
Three awards will be granted annually to successfu...
BERMUDA Independence Commission chairman Bishop Vernon Lambe yesterday criticised Opposition Leader Dr. Grant Gibbons' opinion that the United Nations decolonisation committee has no role to play in Bermuda's Independence debate.
At a press conferenc...
DATE: Mar 18, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent