A presentation designed to help parents protect their children against sex abuse is to be held tonight.
Debi Ray Rivers, founder and executive director for anti-abuse charity Scars, will provide guidance to parents on signs of potential abuse and how...
DATE: Mar 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A contract between the Government’s communications team and a media organisation run by a former Progressive Labour Party MP raised questions from the Opposition yesterday.
Susan Jackson, of the One Bermuda Alliance, called for clarification over the...
Over 100 student leaders were provided with tools to enhance their leadership skills at a Youth Empowerment Summit (Yes!) on the weekend.
The students participated in workshops designed to develop leadership skills at various levels, and to allow the...
Bermuda is taking a “global thought leadership position” in the regulatory approach to security tokens, and one that other jurisdictions will seek to copy, according to technology innovator Jeff Pulver.
The chairman of the Blockchain Token Associatio...
A clear-out of human rights watchdogs has sparked concern about continuity at the anti-discrimination body.
Tawana Tannock, the former chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission, said she was worried important work could “fall between the cracks” if e...
DATE: Mar 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
A local bank is providing financial support for skills programme through six local charities to enhance employability and financial capabilities.
HSBC is providing $398, 000 for the training of young people through several “Future Skills” programme.
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Saltus has announced new financial assistance for primary school students, thanks to “a generous commitment from the Green family”.
In a statement, Amanda Skinner, the school’s director of enrolment management, thanked the Greens for “their continuou...
DATE: Mar 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The recent news has been flooded with commentary on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This tends to be a more leftist leaning theory that supports big government spending and large deficits that get monetised by a central bank.
Basically, governments cr...
Maths lecturer Troy Ashby has claimed another Bermuda record for memorisation of digits behind Pi.
Mr Ashby, of Bermuda College, memorised and wrote 12,000 digits to the right of the decimal, to top his previous best of 6,200, in celebration of World...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Centre for Creative Learning has held an event to celebrate the community members who helped bring their new school premises to life.
The BCCL converted an office into a learning environment for pupils with language-based learning difficu...
DATE: Mar 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
