Je-Shae Pace will probably remember 2020 as the year she stepped out of her comfort zone. She had kept her art private since she moved back to the island after university but, inspired by creative friends, decided to share it.
The 29-year-old’s work ...
An organisation looking to delete gender discrimination in high-tech industries is booting up in Bermuda.
Earlier this month, Coral Wells of ConnecTech launched a chapter of Girls in Tech, an organisation focused on the empowerment, entrepreneurship...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Technology | AUTHOR: Business Staff
It’s most poignant that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter. During his prodigious basketball career, that flying vehicle became a symbol of his persistent greatness and the urgency he always felt.
He didn’t have much time for traffic or any other limit...
Newspapers often get criticised for reporting only the “bad news”, but the announcement last week that there were no murders recorded in 2019 is good news indeed and should, with a caveat, be celebrated.
The caveat, of course, is that Bermuda’s expe...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
The organisers of the 2020 Ag Show have donated a series of small gardens to schools and other organisations around the island.
The gardens, once planted, will be eligible to compete in the annual exhibition this April.
Antwan Albouy, the exhibition’...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
A photographer and musician whose twin passions earned him the Queen’s Certificate and Badge of Honour in 1996 has died. Gene Ray was 85.
Mr Ray captured island life in his lenses as well as visitors for more than 47 years as chief photographer for t...
A fundraising group has thanked the Centre on Philanthropy for decades of service to the Bermuda community.
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Bermuda Chapter reacted to the closure of the Centre, which had faced severe financial difficulti...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
A Berkeley Institute teacher was named Teacher of the Year at the weekend.
Diamond Outerbridge, a finalist for the second time, told the gala ceremony: “I can’t tell you how humbling and inspiring it is to be celebrated this way.”
The special educati...
DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Ten top teachers are in the running for a prestigious award to be handed out tonight.
The nominees were all put forward for the Bermuda Education Network’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
The prize will be handed out at the network’s annual ...
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher
I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...
DATE: Jan 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Christopher Famous
