John Barnes, the former Liverpool ace, has teamed up with Bermuda legends Shaun Goater and Clyde Best in an initiative designed to influence positive social change among the island’s young people.
The star trio have agreed to mentor students at Berke...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Football | AUTHOR: Colin Thompson
The achievements of black Bermudians will be highlighted for Black History Month at Paget Primary School, which is transforming its classrooms into a museum on Thursday.
The school’s third annual Black History Museum will honour Bermudian figures liv...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Women who made bold, life-changing decisions will talk about their experiences this weekend to help other people reinvent themselves.
Keema Perry and Jennifer Outerbridge-Smith said the event on Saturday would help guests think about what differences...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Gil Tucker was the only black student in his class throughout his years at Saltus Grammar School.
Both welcomed and teased, he refused to let anyone set limits on him.
At Harrington Sound Primary School, where he’d studied earlier, he’d been inspire...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Bermuda’s history has been inextricably tied to its economy. With no natural resources and situated 700 miles from the nearest land, its people have always known that economic growth is not just desirable — it is a matter of survival.
From early effo...
DATE: Feb 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
When clients drift away, some hair salons offer hefty discounts to lure them back.
Salon Pink owner Kidist “Pinky” Emery doesn’t see any reason for discounts at her place.
“We offer great services,” she said. “We have an amazing team. Our ideal cust...
DATE: Feb 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Dear Sir,
I read with considerable interest the contribution from Peter Everson and Robert Stewart in The Royal Gazette of February 18, 2020 regarding the need to fix our education system.
They are right, but they seem to be missing vital parts of t...
DATE: Feb 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor | AUTHOR: Letters to the Editor
Fairmont Southampton and its team is making positive contributions to the environment, while also providing benefits to guests and the community.
Through its actions, and as members of Planet 21 — the Accor-wide sustainability programme, the hotel ha...
DATE: Feb 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood.
Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...
Curtis Dickinson cannot have upset too many people with his Budget yesterday, given that most of us are concerned mainly with how any changes will affect our own immediate financial wellbeing.
That may well have been the political aim of the exercis...
DATE: Feb 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
