Three employees of professional services firm KPMG in Bermuda have successfully completed their accounting designations.
Ranisha Simmons earned the Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA Canada designation, while Ciara Rego and Jahlae Outerbridge eac...
DATE: Jan 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
The January 15 edition of The Royal Gazette contained a full-page celebration of the birthday of Donald “Dick” Dane, an educator and football coach. It featured a collection of wonderful testimonials by some outstanding footballers of our past who ha...
Michelle Cann has received several honours as a pianist but it was her ability to work with others that got her hired at one of America’s top music schools.
In November she was appointed the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff chair in piano studies at the Cu...
DATE: Jan 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A deal between minibus operators and the Government to run a school bus service has been struck, it was revealed tonight.
The move is expected to bring an end of shortages of buses on regular schedules – which led to about 50 cancellations a day.
Bu...
DATE: Jan 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A Bermudian social worker and professor who forged strong links between Bermuda College and West Virginia University has died.
Doris Nicholas was 73.
Dr Nicholas, a strong supporter of Black students at WVU, spent 20 years as a faculty member in the ...
DATE: Jan 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
What is the biggest threat facing Bermuda? Last summer I posed this question in an opinion observing that our biggest threat was not in fact Bermuda’s new airport. Today, our island benefits from a new $400 million gateway, built without adding to o...
DATE: Jan 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Scott Pearman
This year’s Cambridge Checkpoint examinations are expected to go ahead as scheduled in March and June, the education department confirmed today.
The Royal Gazette reported last Wednesday that Bermuda’s schoolchildren would be able to sit most of...
DATE: Jan 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Ideas from the public on the future use of a massive nature reserve have been asked for by the Government.
A survey has been set up so the public can give their views and suggestions for facilities at the 38 acre Southlands Park in Warwick.
Particip...
DATE: Jan 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A former director of pathology at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has died.
Keith Cunningham, the hospital’s first Black staff doctor when he joined in 1970, was 86.
Dr Cunningham dedicated his career to the development pathology in Bermuda.
He al...
DATE: Jan 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute is set to reopen to the public next week after a temporary closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The East Broadway, Pembroke attraction will be open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays between 10am and...
DATE: Jan 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Tourism | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
