After being shot by a Taleban gunman for attending school when she was only 15, Malala Yousafzai became one of the world’s most famous young activists for her fight for girls’ rights to education. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Celebrated f...
A student at Whitney Institute Middle School injured two others with “equipment from an art class” in a “recent incident”, according to Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education.
Ms Richards said yesterday: “Any incident such as this is taken ve...
DATE: Mar 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Ryan Robinson Perinchief got fed up with people talking about issues affecting Bermuda’s youth without including them in the discussion.
He was determined to do something about it and launched Future Leaders Bermuda, a programme aimed at getting youn...
DATE: Mar 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
A bid to get more women involved in the traditionally male shipping industry was launched yesterday.
Tammy Richardson-Augustus, director of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association in Bermuda, handed over a booklet designed to promo...
DATE: Mar 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), in honour of its five decades of service to Bermuda this year, is expanding its community outreach throughout 2019. The BMA is partnering with a number of the island’s charities whose missions address five catego...
DATE: Mar 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Press Release
The annual rate of inflation fell to 0.8 per cent in November last year — the lowest rate of increase in the cost of living recorded since June 2016.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures price movements through a basket of goods and services, fou...
DATE: Mar 08, 2019 | CATEGORY: Economy | AUTHOR: Business Staff
It is a story of corruption that will stay secret, politicians who will need fewer votes to win, even dangerous communicable diseases that will spread faster as our best scientists struggle to fight them.
The story is the slow and painful demise of l...
Bermuda’s gang violence reduction co-ordinator explained yesterday how he negotiated a $33,000 raise after he accepted the job for far less reward than he initially sought.
Leroy Bean said his $125,000 salary was “somewhat of a medium” for the stress...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Parliamentarians who sit on a committee investigating how protesters came to be pepper sprayed by police in December 2016 have failed to explain why they have held all of their meetings in secret.
The Joint Select Committee has held 40 meetings, none...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Politics | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg will join Brian Duperreault, chief executive officer of AIG, at an industry forum in New York later this month highlighting Bermuda’s historic and mutually beneficial relationship with the US.
The for...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: International Business | AUTHOR: Business Staff
