The year 2020 is one that we would love to forget. But we can’t. It and its after-effects will linger well into this new year and beyond for all the pain and suffering it has caused — and will continue to cause.
However, out of some of the gloomiest ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
When Jamie Dimon, the head of America's largest bank, says the US economy is in jeopardy, Federal Reserve policymakers and elected officials ought to take notice.
This detail was tucked away in a Wall Street Journal profile of JPMorgan Chase's chief ...
Nikita Robinson may be known for speaking her mind on the radio – but she said she was stunned into silence after she was included in the New Year’s Honours List.
Ms Robinson said: “When they told me, my heart skipped a beat.
“I’m a woman of words ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2021 | CATEGORY: General | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Education chiefs will meet next week to decide if schoolchildren will go back to their classrooms in the middle of the month.
The Education Emergency Measures Committee has already ruled that remote learning will be used from Tuesday until January 12...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Free Democratic Movement may have been out of the spotlight since its election defeat but it is gearing up to address the public early in the new year.
This is according to Eugene Dean, a founding member of the island’s third political force who ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The obituaries are being written for 2020.
The common theme is good riddance and bring on 2021. This has indeed been one of the most difficult years in living memory. Only people who are in their mid-eighties or older will recall 1940, when the futur...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A group of reinsurance companies located in the Cayman Islands have formed a new industry group, the Cayman International Reinsurance Companies Association.
According to its mission statement, Circa is “the industry group for commercial reinsurers lo...
Just days before some 7,000 Bermuda residents marched through Hamilton in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, the island was left to mourn the passing of a Bermudian civil rights campaigner who fought a decades-long battle for racial equality...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Year in Review | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
Renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus cast a pall over the final month of 2020, when the island lost its tenth person to the pandemic – the first death since May.
December brought a quiet festive season after a jump in coronavirus numbers sparked a re...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Year in Review | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Nahki Wells’s £5 million transfer to Burnley in 2017 may have made the headlines, but there was already a Bermudian at Turf Moor — and he is still at the club.
Ne-Jai Tucker, 18, moved to England with his family at the age of 11 after playing for No...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
