When Frances Smith started fitness business Actively Aging the hardest part was just finding clients.
The 24-year-old’s target customers — older people, weren’t on social media the way her own generation was.
In the end, what worked was good, old-fa...
DATE: Feb 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Teaching assistants could be in line for a pay rise in the next Budget in the wake of proper job descriptions being finalised after more than 20 years.
The Bermuda Union of Teachers said it was “reasonably optimistic” that a wage increase for classro...
The Bermuda Hockey Federation has finally concluded their search for a full-time head coach with the appointment of Mathias Ahrens.
Having endured dwindling numbers within its members for a number of years, the federation advertised for the position,...
DATE: Feb 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Hockey | AUTHOR: Sam Murley
Patients 1st Bermuda, a pressure group with 10,000 supporters to improve healthcare reform, is hosting a ‘Health Plan Talk in the Park’ this Friday Feb 7th.
The group was started by concerned medical professionals and has now grown to a community fo...
DATE: Feb 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Press Release
The sugar tax, imposed on October 1, 2018, collected $5,402,000 by December 1, 2019.
The extra duty on sugary foods and drinks, aimed at reducing diabetes and obesity, was raised to 75 per cent in April last year, with the revenue to be used for heal...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Chris Faria caught the farming bug while working as a greenhouse manager at Aberfeldy Nursery and as a farm labourer for Amaral Farms.
A trip through Asia gave him insight into farming in agrarian communities where small-scale farmers grow food for ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Duncan Hall
Parents were urged to keep their children off school if they showed signs of whooping cough after two confirmed cases of the highly contagious illness.
Staff at Somersfield Academy announced a string of precautionary measures yesterday in efforts to ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
An organisation dedicated to science education has become Bermuda’s newest charity.
Carika Weldon, founder and executive director of the Bermuda Principles Foundation, said charitable status would help the organisation broaden its impact.
Dr Weldon, ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Moneywise Pretend Portfolio yearlong series has been updated to reflect stock and bond prices at original issue and as at end of January.
The portfolio is not yet complete as each month in the year-long programme,
but please take the time to see...
A career fair at a Devonshire school was designed to help pupils find their passion, the school’s head said yesterday.
Kimberly Creighton, principal at Elliot Primary School, said that the event, held for the third time, was created to help showcase...
