In 2019, Bermuda hosted 808,242 tourists, which is the most in our history. In the same year, the tourism industry directly contributed 5.1 per cent to our GDP. Of course, tourism has been severely impacted these past two years. There is no reason, h...
A testing schedule for Covid-19 has been drawn up for the return to public schools next month, the Department of Education advised.
Staff and pupils must get a clear PCR test dated within three days of going back to the classroom.
Schools starts on J...
DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
So, what is your desired salary?
This is a question that can make any job candidate’s stomach drop, whether they’re reading it on an application or hearing it from an interviewer. You don’t want to give a lowball answer, but you also don’t want to se...
The Anglican Church of Bermuda hosted their second St Mellitus graduation last month.
The event was the culmination of two years of theological studies by seven individuals who each earned a certificate in Christian theology and ministry.
The progra...
Thank God for the next generation. Keeping us on our toes at every turn, my kids are a constant source of further education. Some things I am not sure I needed to know, some things I didn’t WANT to know and some things have opened my mind to a whole...
The jury is in for this year’s Christmas Short Story Contest – and the competition was fierce.
But the winners have been chosen, as well as some honourable mentions, and the lucky winners will today learn that they can pick up the plaudits – and thei...
DATE: Dec 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Bermuda International Long-Term Insurers and Reinsurers organisation has gifted 750 copies of a book to all P4 students in 27 schools across the island.
The gift is part of the tenth-anniversary celebration for Biltir, which represents 63 long-te...
DATE: Dec 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
After half a century of serving Bermuda and the insurance industry, Bermuda’s school for insurance studies is coming to an end.
And now a special general meeting has been called for the membership of the Bermuda Insurance Institute to decide the way ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
In two years, Bermuda’s first political party will be 60 years old. I decided to look through our 1963 PLP platform to compare those pledges to those made in our 2021 platform. Lest we forget, back then the PLP was often vilified for proposing so-cal...
Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, faces yet another week of political crisis even as his Government confronts new public-health challenges posed by the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
His leadership is being questioned at an especially delicat...
