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
A history book about Bermuda sits on the shelves of libraries in some Sri Lankan schools.
Its author, Nirosha Fernando, believes it is the first account of the island written in Sinhala, his native language.
Called Bermuda, he wrote it to express his...
DATE: Feb 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
The Argus Group has launched a scholarship award in the name of veteran Bermudian insurance executive Sheila Nicoll, who retired from chairing the Argus board last year after 10 years in the role.
Ms Nicoll had served on the board for 15 years in tot...
DATE: Feb 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Parents yesterday appealed to Government to trust them to carry out at home antigen tests on children instead of a lab test before they returned to school.
A spokeswoman for pressure group Us For Them Bermuda, a group of parents opposed to many of th...
DATE: Feb 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan