“Gruesome” cases of animal cruelty, abandonment and injuries have risen since Government relaxed restrictions on the breeding of illegal pitbull dogs, a Government minister admitted yesterday.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said abuse an...
DATE: Aug 03, 2022 | CATEGORY: Crime | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Anna Neilson-Williams has been named the new chief of psychiatry for the Bermuda Hospitals Board after almost a year acting in the post.
Dr Neilson-Williams, who has served as the acting chief of psychiatry since last September, will officially take ...
DATE: Aug 03, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Laws must be updated to address a lack of accountability for abusive pet owners that is having a “devastating” effect on the community.
This is the view of animal welfare charity Bermuda Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals which is worki...
DATE: Aug 02, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Human behavioural science indicates that there are types of characters whose patterns of behaviour can be fit into a few different categories. Without being academic, we can observe some of these differences as occurring in our own life experiences.
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A summer camp aimed at helping public schoolchildren catch up on their reading skills recently provided an opportunity for four aspiring teaching interns to gain professional experience.
The three-week programme which finished last Friday is a conti...
DATE: Aug 02, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies has awarded $287,000 in scholarship funding to 12 students focused on careers in Bermuda’s insurance sector.
This brings the total amount of funding that the Foundation has awarded since the charity was f...
Aristotle had a lot to say about our moral development, but it turns out he also talked a good deal about something called situational luck. For Aristotle, all our habits — good or bad, learnt or not — contribute to our moral development.
The sum of...
DATE: Aug 01, 2022 | CATEGORY: Business | AUTHOR: Stuart Lacey
Registration is now open online for children of all backgrounds for classes at the Portuguese School of Bermuda.
Run by the Portuguese Cultural Association of Bermuda, the after school programme in the Portuguese language is for primary-school aged s...
DATE: Aug 01, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
I experienced the telecommunications revolution first hand in Bermuda, working for the incumbent at the time when the local market deregulated from a duopoly in 1997. In preparation for competition, I recall a consultant’s comments during a workshop ...
Against the backdrop of eye catching visuals and a cacophony of pulsating sounds, Birmingham opened the Commonwealth Games in spectacular fashion.
From a glimpse into its industrial heartbeat, to giant “walking” puppets, harking back to the day’s of ...
DATE: Jul 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Sam Murley
