An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions.
Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...
Primary school pupils are prepared to avoid getting tangled up in gang culture after a six-week course designed to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence.
Ten students at Prospect Primary School in Pembroke, aged 10 or 11, completed the Gang Resist...
Conservationists hope lionfish will be back on the menu this winter as the fifth annual Winter Lionfish Derby picks up steam.
As of Monday afternoon more than 180 lionfish had already been caught as part of this year’s derby.
A spokesman said: “It se...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Environment | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Dozens of new signs have gone up at Dockyard – telling visitors the names of a huge variety of plants.
The signs, which give the Latin and English names, were the idea of West End Development Corporation’s landscape staff who undertook the project ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Press Release
Clarien Bank has appointed chief executive officer Ian Truran to the bank’s board of directors.
Mr Truran has led the bank since May 2010, when he was named CEO of Capital G Bank, before the rebranding as Clarien.
Patrick Hylton, chairman of Clarien ...
DATE: Jan 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
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
