The Bermuda Stock Exchange ended 2018 with a record number of insurance-linked securities listed, and a total market capitalisation of $351 billion.
Greg Wojciechowski, BSX president and chief executive officer, said: “In 2018, the BSX continued to w...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Bermuda Stock Exchange |
A sharp downturn in the stock price of Butterfield Bank in the fourth quarter of the year was the main driver of an 11 per cent loss for the local stock market in 2018.
Only three stocks of the 13 domestic companies listed on the Bermuda Stock Excha...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Bermuda Stock Exchange |
An unused office in Washington cost the Government of Bermuda more than $175,000 for only ten months last year.
Liberty Place, on the United States capital’s 7th Street, was maintained even though it was closed in 2017.
A spokeswoman said the Governm...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Mother Teresa once said “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”.
This is a mantra that Meghan Parry and Angela Faries live by.
The two women have helped to make a small impact in developing ...
A former head teacher at Saltus Grammar School has died in England.
Roy Haygarth, who was 87, led Saltus between 1969 and 1979 — a crucial time in its history. Henry Ziegler, a Saltus alumnus who was the first head of the senior year created by Mr Ha...
DATE: Jan 05, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A date for the first new style report cards for public school- children is still up in the air, the education minister admitted yesterday.
Diallo Rabain said that discussions would begin “this week” with Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education...
A long time ago, or should I say “once upon a time”, while there was yet darkness in the lands, simultaneously there existed the brightness of a hope for a better day.
The 1940s saw a band of newly educated persons pushing in the areas of education, ...
The recent industrial action reflects our school system’s breaking point — and brings to the fore the incontrovertible truth that the social needs of students have overtaken its capacity to cope.
Studies have proven that classroom environments, incl...
Teachers were offered an apology yesterday for a failure of support and communication over the introduction of a new standards-based grading system in public schools.
Kalmar Richards, the education commissioner, admitted there had been “insufficient ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The following was written for Amnesty International about Warwick Academy’s Human Rights Project on its fifth anniversary as part of Amnesty International’s human rights-friendly schools project, and publicised worldwide on its website
Warwick Acad...
