The 1959 Theatre Boycott was pivotal in the lives of George Cook and Ottiwell Simmons. The men were in their twenties when black Bermudians began protests against segregation here.
Dr Cook, who was in university in Canada, read about the efforts in ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
A new history book written to highlight ignored Bermudian stories is to be distributed to public and private schools and libraries.
Prudent Rebels: Bermudians and the First Age of Revolution (1774-1849) by Bermudian historian Clarence Maxwell, with c...
Five members of PwC Bermuda’s captive team will participate in panel discussions at the fifteenth annual Bermuda Captive Conference.
The conference begins today and runs through Wednesday at the Fairmont Southampton hotel.
Organisers bill the confere...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Four Bermuda College students, and a professor at the institution, joined 300 actuaries and technical staff at a reinsurance seminar to learn about the most relevant issues facing the property-casualty re/insurance industries.
The associate degree s...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Business Staff
Bermuda’s limit of one car per household should be relaxed to allow more people to drive minicars instead of motorcycles, MPs heard on Friday.
Opposition MPs raised the issue during the debate over the Green Paper on Transport.
Cole Simons, Shadow Mi...
The Minister of National Security defended the work he is doing for the Department of Corrections in the House of Assembly on the same day that prison officers marched in protest of pay and working conditions.
Wayne Caines spoke during the Motion to...
DATE: Jun 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Primary school pupils have created a museum to showcase projects created with recycled materials.
The Trash to Treasure Museum opened at Port Royal Primary School this week.
Stephanie Correia, the Southampton school’s science teacher leader, said t...
When a child arrives in our world as a beautiful, precious new life to be celebrated, as much as we derive happiness from our perception that their future life will be a great success, that is not always the case.
Children are the future promise of ...
Tiara DeRosa shattered a longstanding record in the National Athletics Championships at the National Sports Centre last night when she surpassed Sonya Smith’s shot put mark of 13.59 metres set in 1985 with her throw of 13.89.
The college student, wh...
DATE: Jun 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
The internet has enabled the flourishing of countless subcultures, from the harmless to the less so. Lately, one of the latter group has begun to break into the mainstream: the “incels”.
Incel is short for “involuntary celibate” and, as their self-im...
