A review of children’s advocacy agencies included five jurisdictions across the world, a social development and seniors ministry spokeswoman said.
Commissions in Jamaica, England, Jersey, Malta and Australia were studied to help set up a replacement ...
A ceremony was held to recognise 15 recipients of scholarships aimed at helping young Bermudians to enter Bermuda’s workforce.
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, addressed the awardees last Thursday on the grounds of the Cabinet Office.
The Dep...
DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda chapter of 100 Women in Finance, the global network of professionals in the finance industry, has selected The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, Bermuda as the charity recipient for its 2021 Bermuda Summer Sunset Gala.
The gala is ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
A schoolgirl has scored top marks in an iGCSE exam – aged just 12.
Emily Sperryn-Jones, from Hamilton Parish, sat the exam in Dutch, designed to be taken by 16-year-olds, in May, a month after her birthday.
She learnt last Saturday that she had rec...
Buying a piece of the rock in Bermuda, like most things, ends up costing more when compared with buying property in other countries, such as the United States and Britain. Not just because of the high cost of real estate, but with the high mortgage r...
University students got a cash boost from a bank to help them finish their studies.
Tierrai Tull and Isaiah Wales, two Bermudian students, were given $25,000 a year for the rest of their undergraduate degrees by Butterfield Bank.
They were among...
HSBC Bermuda is moving into lock-step with its parent group’s ambitious climate strategy.
The local subsidiary has already invested three quarters of a million dollars collaborating with environmental charities in support of various local sustainabil...
DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
The Pembroke Hamilton Club Foundation has reached a milestone.
This year’s seven awardees, who received a share of $24,000 in scholarship grants, bumped the overall total of those to have benefited from the scholarship programme past the century mark...
DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Colin Thompson
Dear Sir,
While Khalid Wasi applauded Andrew Cuomo’s decision to resign as Governor of New York, I suspect many women around the state’s capital and all across New York were dancing in the streets in joyous response.
We’re tired of all the lame, gro...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
As the American military pulled out of Afghanistan, Kabul fell with stunning speed to determined fighters with medieval desires about everything but the accoutrements of war.
Taleban fighters with their long beards and long guns drove through the ci...
DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Robin Givhan
