Bermuda is to start Global Entrepreneurship Week early.
GEW will held worldwide between November 12 and 16, but Global Entrepreneurship Week Bermuda has teamed up with the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, Government’s ICT policy department a...
DATE: Oct 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Neil Speight handing in his resignation as chief executive of the Bermuda Cricket Board recently was not so much a case of him abandoning a sinking ship but a matter of affixing an oxygen tank to his back with flippers to deliver him from the ocean d...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
Bermuda missed the chance to head off an obesity and diabetes epidemic decades ago, a former government head of physical education has claimed.
John Moreby, who worked with the Department of Education for more than 20 years before he retired in 1995,...
DATE: Oct 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A charity set up to care for ex-servicemen is to publicise the island’s role in the First World War with a special poster and booklet to mark the centenary of the Armistice.
The Bermuda Legion has produced a poster with details of every Bermudian who...
The transformation of Bermuda into an “innovation island” could boost the economy, a report commissioned by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has predicted.
Kendaree Burgess, executive director of the chamber, said “we are in the right space to take ou...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Plumbing problems have forced the closure of a preschool tomorrow.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said that Devonshire’s Prospect Preschool was forced to close today because of a water shortage.
She said: “Following an assessment thi...
Sherrie-Lynn Lilley was a teenager when she learnt she was gradually losing her sight.
A strong Christian, she questioned why God would allow such hardship into her life.
It wasn’t until years later that she began to see it as a blessing that could...
Dear Sir,
I’m writing once again to your column voicing my feelings regarding the funeral of a dear friend who passed away on October 7, 2018. The funeral took place last Saturday at the Salvation Army Citadel on North Street, Pembroke.
Kirwan would ...
DATE: Oct 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
The executive director of an environmental charity is understood to have been made redundant.
Jonathan Starling, one of Greenrock’s two full-time staff, is believed to have parted company with the charity.
The move is thought to have been made on cos...
DATE: Oct 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
A former Miss Teen Bermuda who became an international award-winning midwife has spearheaded an attempt to make sure women in war-torn Syria get proper maternity care.
Pandora Hardtman set up a programme to promote safe births in the devastated Middl...
DATE: Oct 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
