The year’s first commemorative stamp series have been issued to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Garden Club of Bermuda.
From a modest beginning in April 4, 1921, the club has grown into one of the island’s most lasting groups.
The four stamps ...
DATE: Apr 07, 2021 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Plans to host a “virtual” Ag Show have been pushed back in the wake of the latest surge of Covid-19 cases.
While the event was scheduled to be held online this year through a live broadcast on April 23, the Ag Show Ltd Committee have pushed back the...
On Sunday evening, it was announced that two people had died of Covid-19 over the weekend, the first deaths since January and the thirteenth and fourteenth since the beginning of the pandemic.
Last night, 69 new cases were announced after 108 new cas...
Dear Sir,
In today’s Royal Gazette (March 31, 2021) the chairman of the Bermuda College Board of Governors, Peter Sousa, ran a large advertisement congratulating long-service awardees.
Unfortunately, in large print, he has shown an egregious lack o...
DATE: Apr 06, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
Bermudian university student William Welch has been hired by engineering company iEPC as an intern.
The internship is part of Mr Welch’s engineering programme at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he is a first-year student in the s...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Bermuda Electric Light Company Ltd is accepting applications for the company’s scholarship opportunities that are available to Bermudian students.
The company said scholarships will be awarded to prospective employees of the company who will attend s...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Routine saliva testing for the coronavirus is to be expanded in the island’s public school system, according to Diallo Rabain, the education minister.
Mr Rabain said last night that a pilot school testing programme had found “two positive cases which...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The mother of a teenager who died last year after a motorcycle accident is hoping to raise money to start a scholarship in honour of her son.
Antoinette Burgess said that fundraising had started for the Kijani Burgess Dream Award and that she hoped t...
This year, “I choose to challenge” was the theme of International Women’s Month. In the spirit of this, I have elected to challenge our government to work to improve the protection of women and others who are harassed and abused, and to ban the non-d...
The year 2020 and the start of 2021 will mark a dramatically different school experience that all of our children will remember for the rest of their lives. Our teachers have had to be creative, adapting to conditions and circumstances that they were...
DATE: Apr 05, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Ben Smith