Bermuda’s regulators “get it” when it comes to understanding the future of digital technologies and specifically fintech opportunities.
This was the view of Appleby partner Jerome Wilson during the opening day of the virtual Bermuda Tech Summit, host...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Belco is to hold a virtual open house today to provide information about the organisation’s upcoming apprenticeship programme.
Hosted by Nadir Wade, managing director of bulk generation, the open house is an opportunity for anyone interested in apply...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
The majority of public schools will be open to in-classroom learning by the end of the week, the Premier has announced.
At last night’s press conference, David Burt said that 30 of the island’s 36 public schools had reached the 80 per cent parental c...
Four pupils and one school staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The results were received during the testing programme rolled out for the return of in-school learning.
As of Monday, students and staff from 12 schools had been teste...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A trained actor traded the stage for the real-life drama of the courtroom, a Call to the Bar has heard.
Izabella Arnold, whose first degree was in theatre and dance, was welcomed to the legal profession at an online sitting of the Supreme Court on Mo...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
A union representative has been branded “treasonous” by a teaching union.
Leonard Santucci, the Bermuda Union of Teachers representative at the Berkeley Institute, came under attack in a union internal memo after he highlighted claimed breaches of th...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Labour | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
It was a tumultuous scene – hundreds of euphoric students cheering their hero Flora Duffy as her motorcade wound through their school grounds.
As part of her welcome back to Bermuda tour, Flora visited her old school, Warwick Academy, and for some yo...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A Portuguese language school for children has recruited a new teacher.
The Portuguese Cultural Association of Bermuda said Lidia Silvia, who has taught the language in Bermuda for a year from her home in London by Zoom, would be moving to the island....
DATE: Oct 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
People lined the roads to show their support for Olympic gold medal hero Flora Duffy when she returned home to Bermuda.
A motorcade made its way from the airport through eastern parishes, across to Warwick Academy via Darrell’s Wharf and back into Ha...
DATE: Oct 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Autonomous underwater vehicles are being deployed from Bermuda, gliding through the ocean with a payload of sensors, gathering valuable data about the earth’s oceans.
You may be interested to learn how immersive technology will power the future of to...
DATE: Oct 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff