Tem sido um ano desafiador: it has been a challenging year.
That’s likely how the Portuguese School of Bermuda would describe 2020 after Covid-19 wrecked its fundraising efforts and threw a monkey wrench into plans for teacher recruitment.
A donor d...
Covid-19 has exposed the extent of poverty on the island, frontline workers have claimed.
Rachel Dill, the director of client services at the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said even two-parent families with full-time jobs had been forced ...
DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A reduction in taxation levels is needed if the economy is to recover, the leader of the island’s newest political force said this week.
Marc Bean, of the Free Democratic Movement, said his party’s action plan for kick-starting the economy included t...
A former top nurse appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 20 years ago for her contribution to healthcare has died.
Jacqueline Lightbourne, the island’s first Chief Nursing Officer, was 84. Ms Lightbourne started at the ...
Last week’s poll gave the Progressive Labour Party a commanding lead for the forthcoming General Election.
Fifty per cent of the Global Research poll respondents said they would vote for the PLP while just 17 per cent said they would vote for the Op...
A One Bermuda Alliance government would remove the sugar tax and help to develop sectors that are particularly attractive to younger people, the party said today.
Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, its finance spokeswoman, added that the OBA’s economic framewo...
Three political newcomers are to run in St George’s in the General Election.
Dwain Smith of the new Free Democratic Movement will stand in St George’s West, the One Bermuda Alliance’s Thomas Harvey will contest the same seat and James Perry of the OB...
Kayakers will take to the water this weekend to complete a loop of the islands in aid of a child sexual abuse prevention charity.
They will be joined by surf skiers and paddleboarders for the fifth annual Kayak For Kids, to raise money and awareness ...
A civil rights campaign group has unveiled its platform for 2020.
Social Justice Bermuda, inspired by the global Black Lives Matter movement, listed a series of changes it wanted in the areas of criminal justice, education, healthcare and food and ec...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Up to 75 uniformed services jobs are under threat from cutbacks, the One Bermuda Alliance claimed yesterday.
Ben Smith, the shadow national security minister in the last government, said personnel in the police, prison and fire services had predicted...
DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
