Bermuda charity African Diaspora Heritage Trail will host its sixth annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Commemoration this month, with accomplished Barbadian professor Al...
DATE: Mar 09, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: News Staff
Some burst into tears as their school bus erupted in flames, while others were excited by the sheer drama of it all.
The most important thing for the heads of Somersfield Academy and Warwick Academy was that no one was hurt.
Seven Somersfield and six...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Today being International Women’s Day, four leading women of the ruling One Bermuda Alliance have collaborated on a message for the fairer sex of Bermuda, under the global campaign theme “be bold for change”
Be bold for change.
Recognise your self...
An organisation for professional women is celebrating a name change that better reflects its broad-based membership.
The Bermuda branch of 100 Women in Finance is a networking and philanthropy group that has thrived since it was set up and gained off...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
Students from Bermuda High School have surpassed their fundraising expectations by close to $60,000 at their first St Baldrick’s Day event.
Some 27 girls braved having their heads shaved or locks cut for the event in support of child cancer research,...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The bus explosion was so loud it triggered an alarm inside a nearby building yesterday.
“We heard a loud bang — I would say it sounded like an explosion,” Warwick Post Office employee Pandora Woolridge said.
The post office stands just steps from whe...
A group of Saltus students recently took part in a United Nations conference about the topical issue of migration.
Briley Habib and Phillip Heap, the school’s heads of geography and design and technology respectively, took 11 SGY students to the annu...
DATE: Mar 08, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The last week in February was an ugly, humiliating one for South Africa. A country once considered a jewel of democracy on the African continent has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence. In a matter of days, more than 30 stores belonging to ...
The Ministry of Health is highlighting Bermuda’s dietitians as part of Nutrition Month.
“March is Nutrition Month, and Dietitian’s Day is celebrated by many countries on March 8,” it stated. “Nutrition Month is a fitting time to recognise the dieteti...
DATE: Mar 07, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: News Staff
Consumers paid 1.9 per cent more in January than they did a year before for goods and services.
And the level of inflation rose by 0.3 of a percentage point to 1.9 per cent between December last year and the first month of 2017.
The cost of the educa...
