SailGP Inspire, the global league’s community, education and outreach initiative, will relaunch in Bermuda at the opening event of SailGP Season 2 with an increased focus on inclusivity and diversity.
Launched in 2019 and building on the success of ...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021 | CATEGORY: Sailing | AUTHOR: Sam Murley
States have taken wildly different approaches to vaccine distribution, but one thing unites them: many of their most at-risk residents, particularly in communities of colour, are being left behind. In Connecticut, which boasts one of the best coverag...
In the year 10,000BC Black people led the way, creating tools, domesticating animals and exploring the science, art and cultivation of plants.
It is where Melodye Micere Van Putten decided to begin the history lesson she created as part of her gradua...
DATE: Mar 01, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
Government spending will top the $1 billion mark in the next financial year, the Minister of Finance revealed yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said that estimated revenue for the year was $998.8 million and that a Budget deficit of $124.5 million would be...
DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Government’s plans for economic recovery over the in the new financial year were branded “aspirational and low on detail” by the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday.
Cole Simons, the Leader of the Opposition, said Bermuda’s debt combined with pension ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The maintenance of school buildings must get better, the shadow education minister said yesterday.
Ben Smith warned that renovated schools would deteriorate fast if work was neglected.
Mr Smith said: “We have a lot of buildings that are old – it’s ab...
DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A “project management team” is to be created to help boost the economy, the finance minister announced yesterday.
Curtis Dickinson said during his 2021-22 Budget statement that a list of 30 policy changes and initiatives had been developed to “accele...
In the Westminster system, Budgets have traditionally been shrouded in mystery.
There’s good reason for this: leaks of tax increases or policy changes would lead to hoarding, profiteering or abuse. In the 1930s, a British Cabinet minister was forced ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A Covid-19 case has been identified at a secondary school, it was revealed this morning.
A spokesman for the board of governors at the Berkeley Institute in Pembroke said an individual had been confirmed as infected.
The spokesman added: “The individ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Minister of Finance should cut taxes and fees for businesses to re-energise the economy, it was claimed yesterday.
Green-friendly projects, increased support for youth services, and breaks for charities that provide essential services, were other...
DATE: Feb 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Budget | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
