May I respond to Jan-Ann Martin who critiqued, in The Royal Gazette of January 13, my overlong comments on the proposed government health reforms?
First, it is worth noting and recording that Bermuda does come out reasonably well by comparison with o...
The Ledgelets in Sandys was once a thriving cottage colony owned by John and Nelga Young.
Then the tourism slide began; the couple passed away and the Ledgelets became strictly residential in the 1990s.
Now the property is going through a revival, of...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A Bermudian schoolboy and his mom have featured in a story by the UK’s national broadcaster about a rise in racist abuse in English schools.
Carla Zuill, a former Bermudian journalist who now lives in Manchester, told the BBC she was called by his sc...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The World Economic Forum, the most concentrated gathering of wealth and power on the planet, will begin once again amid a natural fortress of snow and ice in the Swiss Alps. President Donald Trump is jetting in for a scheduled address. Dozens of othe...
Cynthia DeSilva kept things hush when she decided to pursue a college degree in 2014.
She wasn’t sure her friends would understand why she needed to do it, at age 78.
“They would have said what are you trying to prove,” the retired nurse said. “I rea...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Schoolchildren got a taste of cutting-edge technology as part of a workshop at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
Underwater robots, coding and game development were among the subjects explored on the Tools of Ocean Exploration event at the bio...
A group of pupils involved in a youth leadership conference planted a tree yesterday to mark Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Pupils from public and private schools also used the occasion to signal the start of a massive Vision 20/20 tree-planting campaign...
A charity dedicated to halting the sexual abuse of children crossed a landmark when it certified its 10,000th child advocate.
Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder of Saving Children And Revealing Secrets, said that milestone, achieved on Saturday, reflected ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dear Sir,
Recently, the Government of Bermuda has introduced a new standard of qualifying for work in Bermuda for speakers of other languages.
While I agree that persons that serve with the public, especially waiters, etc, should be able to take ord...
DATE: Jan 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Teenagers took up the campaign for safer roads yesterday as they remembered a schoolmate who died in a crash earlier this week.
Pupils and teachers at the Bermuda Institute turned the school into a sea of blue as they paid tribute to Kijani Burgess a...
