Organisers of the third annual International Tech Summit in Bermuda have hailed the growing level of international and local interest in the island’s burgeoning fintech sector.
The week-long summit, held this month, featured a conference having 46 sp...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
The Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, has welcomed the siting of a Bermudian insurance group’s new subsidiary in Henrico County.
The new offices are for Hamilton Insurance Group’s US headquarters, which the governor said included a $415,000 inve...
DATE: Mar 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
It will be legal to grow and sell cannabis – if controversial legislation passed in the House of Assembly yesterday gets Royal Assent from the Governor.
The Cannabis Licensing Act 2022 would create a regulated framework for growth and sale of the dru...
The common-sense mantra is “managing a budget keeps your finances under control”.
Good advice for good times: stable job, stable economy, healthy family, and a positive, promising future.
Not so relevant now. In an almost three-year torrent of events...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Personal Finance | AUTHOR: Martha Harris Myron
Clarien Bank is to discontinue its in-person teller services and is transitioning to digital, self-service based personal banking for all its customers.
Teller services at the bank’s 19 Reid Street branch will no longer be available effective the en...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Bermudians are to become eligible for student loans in England - even if they have never lived there.
The UK government announced that students from some British Overseas Territories – including Bermuda – will be eligible for tuition fee loans for un...
Strict Covid-19 restrictions on schoolchildren are having a negative economic impact on Bermuda as parents opt to leave the island for more lenient jurisdictions, a senator has said.
Ben Smith, the Opposition Senate Leader, said during the last Senat...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point.
Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
Charity fundraisers who “braved the shave” in aid of childhood cancer research have so far raised more than $40,000.
Fundraising efforts for the annual St Baldrick’s Day event, where participants cut or completely shave their heads to raise cash, wer...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
