New global rules that would force many Bermudian-based multinational companies to pay more tax have a good chance of becoming reality, despite the challenges of the required international consensus, says one of the island’s leading corporate tax expe...
DATE: Oct 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
A trio of university students with a passion for the environment were given cash awards from a conservation charity today to fund their education for the year.
The Bermuda Zoological Society awarded Freyja Kermode a BZS Steinhoff Scholarship and the ...
A series of videos designed to explain Bermuda’s political system have been created to mark the 400th anniversary of Parliament.
The animated video series is intended to educate the public – particularly young Bermudians – about Bermuda’s political p...
DATE: Oct 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
“Oft as we can we will come back again
”Here oft you will find us”
— Berkeley School Song
Fellow Berkeleyites, I greet you today on the 123rd anniversary of the founding of our school, our home, the Berkeley Institute.
Imagine, if you ...
DATE: Oct 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
A $5 million target was yesterday set for a new social fund designed to give a hand-up to the most underprivileged sectors of society.
The Bermuda Foundation launched the scheme to support schemes that would offer “mobility and advancement for the mo...
Long controversial, the Greek system on college campuses is under fire again. This time, the pressure is from within. Sparked by the national reckoning over racial injustice, calls to #AbolishGreekLife began sweeping American colleges and universitie...
A doctor and teacher who was the first black medical director at the island’s hospital has died.
Ronald Lightbourne was 84.
The father of three, who finished medical school at Loma Linda University in California in 1964, worked at Watts Health Centre...
DATE: Oct 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Schoolchildren were yesterday praised for their part in a government work experience programme which was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The closing ceremony could not be held for the professional-student relationship programme, but everyone who ...
DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian student has become the first to receive a full scholarship pledged by two businessmen looking to invest in the island’s young talent.
Katherine Grainge is attending the University of St Andrews in Scotland thanks to the donation from Chri...
DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: News | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Yale is under attack for allegedly doing too much to support students from underrepresented backgrounds. In reality, the university hasn't done enough.
For Yale students and faculty of colour, progress has often been slow and incremental. It took 86 ...
