Offshore law firm Appleby is providing internship opportunities to eight Bermudian students throughout the summer.
The firm welcomed students across various departments including, corporate, private client & trusts, dispute resolution and marketing. ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
With the threat from the Delta variant bearing down across the United States, it is almost hard to remember the heady days this summer when many of us were experiencing relief, joy, even euphoria as we began to resurface from the pandemic. Barbecues ...
An ambitious plan for a home for at-risk mothers and children is “rounding the last corner”, the charity leading the effort said yesterday.
Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity Bermuda said another $50,000 was needed for the finish...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Campaigns | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Milaun Perott has been awarded the 2021 Legal Education Scholarship by the Bermuda office of international law firm Appleby.
The $30,000 award was one of four made by Appleby, which has been providing scholarships and bursaries for more than 40 years...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
The Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies (BFIS), now in its 25th year of existence, has just awarded a total of $357,500 in scholarship funding to 18 students focused on careers in Bermuda’s insurance sector.
This brings the total amount of fund...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
A Pembroke school hopes to install a solar array on their roof as part of an effort to improve sustainability and raise environmental awareness.
Carlos Ferreira, chairman of the Mount Saint Agnes Board of Governors, said the board agreed in 2019 to m...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has stepped down after 22 years in the job at the request of the union.
Mike Charles confirmed that he was asked to quit and that he left the job in early June.
But he refused to discuss the rea...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Registration is now open for Entrepreneurship 101, an entrepreneurship education course hosted by the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation.
The BEDC said the course provides new and aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools and resources n...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Dawnnette Bobb, a former Bermuda Olympic sprinter, has been chosen to be daughter Caitlyn’s team manager and coach at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships next week in Nairobi, Kenya.
Caitlyn Bobb, a sprinter also, will be the island’s lone re...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Track & Field | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month.
But that seems unlikely. But i...
DATE: Aug 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
