The solar energy industry has seen a 70 per cent decrease in installations over the last year — a fall that supporters of renewables put down a slashing of the rate that Belco is required to pay to solar producers for what they supply to the grid.
In...
BF&M Limited (“BF&M”, “the BF&M Group” or “the Company”), along with Bermuda Education Network (BEN) and Purvis Primary held the first edition of the school’s Wellness Day programme last week. The Wellness Day programme was developed in partnership w...
Bermuda’s medical expertise has been boosted, courtesy of nine scholarships.
This year’s grants came from the Bermuda Hospitals Board with funding from the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, with a GlaxoSmithKline scholarship that BHB administers.
T...
DATE: Jul 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies awarded $230,000 in scholarship funding to ten students focused on careers in Bermuda’s insurance sector.
This brings the total amount of funding that the foundation has awarded since the charity was foun...
The important role Bermuda plays in managing insurance and reinsurance risk globally was emphasised during a gathering of the island’s past and present insurance leaders.
As the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers celebrated its 25th anniv...
A seven-strong group of Bermudian debaters have jetted to Europe to compete in two prestige international competitions.
The Dynamic Debaters will show off their skills in the Czech Republic at the Heart of Europe Debating Tournament in Olomouc and at...
The decision of the Lower and Upper Houses of the Bermudian Parliament on June 22 and July 5, 2018 respectively, to end conscription, in my view, is a most retrograde and unfortunate step for the island, particularly for the black male and underprivi...
The Association of Bermuda International Companies has invited chief executives of all its member companies to sign a pledge on diversity and inclusion.
The pledge includes the implementation of unconscious bias education, to welcome “difficult” conv...
DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: International Business |
Education is the key to democracy and economic development, the former head of the global teachers’ body Education International has said.
Fred Van Leeuwen, the group’s past general secretary, added education was “an individual and collective right”....
DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Over the past few months, the Bermuda Government has been busy in its quest to build a third economic pillar to complement Bermuda’s re/insurance and tourism sectors. And the Government should be commended in its desire to diversify the economy.
The...
