The last surviving member of a family that left an indelible mark in public service in Bermuda and abroad, has died.
Wyonne Paine passed away in Britain, aged 97.
Mrs Paine, a force in education and on the tennis court in the late 1940s and early 195...
DATE: May 05, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Meredith Ebbin
The asthma charity of Bermuda was forced to cancel its public demonstration for World Asthma Day today for public safety.
But Tracy Nash, the director of asthma education at Open Airways, said that it was still important for people with asthma to tak...
Business Staff
An insurance industry conference in Bermuda that was to have happened in September has been cancelled, with the organisers now focused on bringing it back next year.
The 2020 Bermuda International Life & Annuity Conference was schedule...
When the switch was thrown at 6am on August 2, 1962 to radio station ZFB-1, Egbert Montague Sheppard had endured two years of roadblocks to the creation of the island’s second station.
In 1960, after years abroad, Mr Sheppard, known widely as “Monty”...
DATE: May 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
Seniors with memory problems are at higher risk of danger under the shelter-in-place regulations, a doctor warned yesterday.
Jo-Ann Cousins-Simpson, of Bermuda Alzheimer’s & Memory Services — known as Beams — said that strict rules imposed to limit ...
In this time and place it helps the psyche to return to the basics, to the everyday things we do to make life worthwhile. Moneywise will return to discussions of financial matters in a few weeks. Right now we all just have to get through this unprece...
Parents and pupils were told yesterday that there was still “no fixed date” for schools to reopen.
However, Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said that staff were preparing buildings for children’s’ return to the classroom.
He added: “Technic...
Last Sunday, during my morning stroll through Facebook, I glanced at a long thread. Perhaps one of the longest threads in recent local social-media history.
More than 800 comments generated by an extremely false claim that the Bermuda Government was ...
DATE: May 01, 2020 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
Bermuda-based Legal & General Reinsurance (“L&G Re”) today launched the ‘Lighthouse Connect’ fund at the Bermuda Community Foundation in partnership with the Mirrors Programme to raise funds to provide free laptops to all Bermuda public school studen...
Kaden Hopkins and Caitlin Conyers have been named male and female riders of the year by the Bermuda Bicycle Association.
The 2019 awards were announced on Tuesday during the BBA’s annual meeting, which was held via videoconference.
The BBA release fo...
