Bermudian student Kyra Hodsoll has won this year’s scholarship from insurance and reinsurance firm Validus.
Ms Hodsoll, a second year summer student at Validus, is studying at Kingston University in England.
Ed Noonan, Validus chairman, said: “After ...
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening — it’s the little things that count in Bermuda. Etiquette expert Trudy Snaith has written Bermuda Shorts & More to help people who are new to the island fit in. The book covers “cultural etiquette faux pas” ...
DATE: Aug 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment |
Knowledge Quest, the scholarship charity now in its 15th year, fêted donors, graduates and scholarship winners, as its semi-annual party heard that $4.2 million had been committed to education.
The group specialises in “last resort scholarships for B...
When I was much younger, my interests perhaps could have been best described as mechanical and mathematical. I certainly had no inclination towards sociology or psychology. However, a series of events led me along a path that resulted in baccalaureat...
A Bermuda College course launched in 2012 to address a shortage of nurses on the island has yet to produce a single qualified nurse.
Seventeen students have so far graduated from the college’s Nursing Pathways Programme with an Associate Degree in Sc...
DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The parents of four students who were in France at the time of the terror attack that shook Nice have spoken of their relief as they welcomed them home today.
Giovanni Hollis, Corrie Cross, Shane Krueger and Yusef Bushara arrived at LF Wade Internati...
Drowning remains a significant worldwide public health concern. It ranks as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death, accounting for 7 per cent of all injury-related fatalities.
It is a particularly major cause of disability and mortalit...
Leadership styles and career advice were among the topics discussed by two reinsurance CEOs at a 100 Women in Hedge Funds event in Bermuda.
The key speakers were Mary Forrest, president of Munich Re’s North America (life), and Kathleen Faries, chief ...
DATE: Jul 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
A website that goes live this week is aiming to provide a platform for commentary on Bermuda’s current affairs.
On TalkWell.org, all contributors will be named and the goal is to stimulate “useful, solution-led dialogue”.
In the lead-up to this week’...
Esme Williams’s life was going great until tragedy struck.
She’d just started a new job and was loving every minute.
And then she lost her eyesight.
A rare disease struck one eye, and then the other, taking away most of her vision.
The 72-year-old ha...
