While the One Bermuda Alliance welcomes initiatives to stop deaths and injury on our roads, it is imperative that the Government makes sure that necessary funding is released to ensure its new road safety campaign is effective.
The Minister of Transp...
There is no denying the power of robotics. Take US company Starship Technologies; their team of engineers produces self-driving delivery robots that carry items such a documents or groceries from point A to point B across a three-kilometre radius.
As...
The Government is considering a proposal to lower the legal alcohol limit in an attempt to reduce road deaths by 25 per cent.
David Minors, the road safety officer at the Transportation Control Department and executive officer of the Bermuda Road Sa...
The Ombudsman has launched a probe into a Government ministry over its ability to deal with allegations of abuse.
The Ombudsman’s office said the investigation into the unnamed ministry was launched last year because of a 2014 case which is still to ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
It was standing room only at TN Tatem Middle School’s auditorium recently as the Tatem “Family of Schools” — the feeder schools of Purvis Primary, Gilbert Institute and Heron Bay, and TN Tatem itself — joined together for a two-hour concert featuring...
A class of graduates celebrated completion of the Parks Department’s Skills Development Programme yesterday.
Ten men and a woman took the five-month course, which is aimed at young people interested in horticulture and landscaping as a career.
Held ...
The greatest challenge to dementia caregivers can sometimes be the families of their patients.
Many go through a period of denial, confused by the ups and downs of the disease.
“They think mom is going to be okay,” said Yana Swainson of Bermuda In Ho...
DATE: Jun 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
In the summer of 2015, when he was 14, Yannick Hillier took his first rowing strokes in a two-week summer Learn to Row course offered by the Bermuda Rowing Association.
Launching from the BRA’s boathouse on White’s Island, Hillier gained his rowing ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sport Staff
A new chief of emergency has been appointed for Bermuda Hospitals Board, it was announced today.
Chikezie Dean Okereke takes up the post for three years next week, replacing Edward Schultz, who has retired from BHB.
He has worked in the emergency dep...
DATE: Jun 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
The South Carolina city of Charleston’s two-page apology for enslaving black people and terrorising and treating them as second-class citizens during Jim Crow, ought to be crumpled up and tossed into the trash.
Supporters have cheered the city counci...
