The Free Democratic Movement may have been out of the spotlight since its election defeat but it is gearing up to address the public early in the new year.
This is according to Eugene Dean, a founding member of the island’s third political force who ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The obituaries are being written for 2020.
The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A group of reinsurance companies located in the Cayman Islands have formed a new industry group, the Cayman International Reinsurance Companies Association.
According to its mission statement, Circa is “the industry group for commercial reinsurers lo...
Just days before some 7,000 Bermuda residents marched through Hamilton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the island was left to mourn the passing of a Bermudian civil rights campaigner who fought a decades-long battle for racial equality...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Year in Review | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
Renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus cast a pall over the final month of 2020, when the island lost its tenth person to the pandemic – the first death since May.
December brought a quiet festive season after a jump in coronavirus numbers sparked a re...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Year in Review | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Nahki Wells’s £5 million transfer to Burnley in 2017 may have made the headlines, but there was already a Bermudian at Turf Moor — and he is still at the club.
Ne-Jai Tucker, 18, moved to England with his family at the age of 11 after playing for No...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
Many years ago during the days of the Mid-Ocean News, I wrote an op-ed about the terms negentropic or entropic socioeconomic design. Of course, I have no claims on prophethood — some things are simple logic and can be deduced through science. Two com...
In the autumn of 1954, four months after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in District of Columbia public schools in a companion case to Brown v Board of Education, six of the city's seven all-white high schools accepted black students for the f...
Wilton Reinsurance Bermuda has donated $12,000 to support the Coalition for the Protection of Children and The Family Centre.
Expressing gratitude for Wilton Re’s donation, Rachael Dill of the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said: “As you c...
School closures could be avoided if they were allowed to apply for charter school status and get the right to government grants, an education campaigner has said.
Becky Ausenda, the executive director of the Bermuda Education Network, an organisatio...
DATE: Dec 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
