The Bermuda Captive Conference is to return to the live stage for the first time in three years.
Now in its 18th year, the BCC will take place as a hybrid event from September 12 to 14.
Delegates to the conference will have the opportunity to return ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Has the technology of the moment stolen your focus?
That is the question being posed by bestselling author Johann Hari in his new book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again.
The idea that the human attention span is ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Wellness | AUTHOR: Robin Trimingham
Curtis Dickinson, a career banker who transitioned to politics in 2018, brought substantial private sector experience, particularly overseas, to his career as finance minister under the Progressive Labour Party.
One of his top roles as minister was u...
DATE: Feb 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The Government said on Friday that inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, rose 2.5 per cent in the 12 months to October.
A Ministry of the Cabinet Office statement said that during October 2021 consumers paid 2.5 per cent more than they ...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Market volatility or teenage angst may have been what has left only one of the 17 teams in the KPMG 17th Annual Senior School Investment Challenge with the $100,000 they began with at the start of the six-month exercise.
The competition began in Nove...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Island nations must play a role on the world stage when it comes to the marine environment, according to environmental campaigner Anna Oposa.
Ms Oposa, co-founder of Save Philippine Seas, said that while island nations may not be able to make the sam...
DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s newest lawyer thanked her mother for “never deterring me from my dreams, despite them seeming almost impossible”.
Precious Smith, who was Called to the Bar before Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden, also wished her mother Wendy Woodley a happy...
DATE: Feb 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Dear Sir,
The late, great Larry Burchall wrote about many things in his Bermuda Sun opinion pieces. His voice was a powerful one over 15 or so years and, sadly, many of his grave economic predictions have come to pass. Here is one that concerns every...
DATE: Feb 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
A charity has signed up a Bermudian agricultural expert to deliver educational and therapeutic programmes.
Omari Dill, an agronomist, an expert in soil and plants, is head of the WindReach environmental education programme.
Mr Dill said: “We explore...
DATE: Feb 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Shaun Connolly
