Participants in this year’s Thinner Winner Contest lost a combined 1,095 pounds and inches.
Twenty-five teams with 141 members between them shed a total of 402lbs and 693in over the course of the six-week fitness challenge organised by The Athletic C...
Government is still accepting submissions from those interested in serving on its 2017 boards and committees.
“We were very encouraged by the submissions we received earlier this year when we first announced the opening up of our boards and committe...
Police are to begin recording instances of hate crimes perpetrated against members of the island’s LGBT community, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
The Bermuda Police Service’s quarterly and annual crime statistics do not include information about crime...
DATE: Oct 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The Bermuda Turtle Project — a study of seas turtles in Bermuda waters — has completed its 49th year of research.
Based at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, the study has been running since 1968 during which time project members, students and vol...
Market stall holders are to get a lesson in how to inject some New York pizazz into their businesses.
Bermuda Economic Development Corporation staff Raymond Lambert and William Spriggs aim to pass on the lessons learnt at an international conference ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Environmental health officials have refused to reveal the health and safety “grades” given to every restaurant in Bermuda.
The information was requested by The Royal Gazette under the Public Access to Information Act but the Department of Health’s in...
DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Understanding bonds, part 3
Companies, governments, individual investors need or want bonds; they are bought and sold every day by the billions of dollars.
You now know what a bond looks like, what coupon (interest rate) it can pay, how much the fac...
A children’s charity is urging MPs to focus on a raft of initiatives to tackle the root causes of gang violence and improve the lives of the island’s youngest.
The Coalition for the Protection of Children yesterday released a 38-point plan, which inc...
DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A screenwriting course led by Bermudian filmmaker Lucinda Spurling is set to begin next month.
The course, organised by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, is intended to help participants develop their writing skills and help create a new generation o...
DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Transferring operational risks, such as from cyberbreaches and rogue trading, to third-party investors through cat bonds, will be discussed at ILS Bermuda Convergence 2016.
Two speakers from Credit Suisse, which brought to market the first insurance-...
DATE: Oct 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Reinsurance | AUTHOR: Scott Neil
