The common-sense mantra is “managing a budget keeps your finances under control”.
Good advice for good times: stable job, stable economy, healthy family, and a positive, promising future.
Not so relevant now. In an almost three-year torrent of events...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Personal Finance | AUTHOR: Martha Harris Myron
Clarien Bank is to discontinue its in-person teller services and is transitioning to digital, self-service based personal banking for all its customers.
Teller services at the bank’s 19 Reid Street branch will no longer be available effective the en...
DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Bermudians are to become eligible for student loans in England - even if they have never lived there.
The UK government announced that students from some British Overseas Territories – including Bermuda – will be eligible for tuition fee loans for un...
Strict Covid-19 restrictions on schoolchildren are having a negative economic impact on Bermuda as parents opt to leave the island for more lenient jurisdictions, a senator has said.
Ben Smith, the Opposition Senate Leader, said during the last Senat...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point.
Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Gareth Finighan
Charity fundraisers who “braved the shave” in aid of childhood cancer research have so far raised more than $40,000.
Fundraising efforts for the annual St Baldrick’s Day event, where participants cut or completely shave their heads to raise cash, wer...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Called to the Bermuda Bar in November 2021, Ojeda Smith has joined Appleby’s legal trainee programme and begins her first seat with the firm’s insurance department.
Ms Smith said: “It is an honour to be given the opportunity to train at one of Bermud...
DATE: Mar 25, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
After 50 years of sociopolitical activity preceded by a nebulous or nascent introduction through church and family, I think my tales of that experience may be of interest for those who are going forward with any political ambition. It is useful to kn...
Imagine a Cup Match, Bermuda Day or National Heroes Weekend where virtually no waste was created that could not be reused, recycled or composted.
All trash cans at the events would be separated for the depositing of different types of materials, the...
DATE: Mar 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
