It is timely and right, with World Press Freedom Day having been internationally recognised yesterday, that we remind Bermuda of the significance of independent media and their value to society — especially amid the scourge of the coronavirus pandemi...
DATE: May 04, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials | AUTHOR: RG: In our Opinion
A Bermudian piano teacher who married Ugandan royalty has died.
Ada Nyabongo was just three days short of her 94th birthday when she died on March 26.
Born in Bermuda to Harold and Naomi Paynter, but brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Dr Nyabongo earn...
Frances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but.....the request to make a film about him came from her mother.
And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20.
“The st...
The Premier has denied that the Government wanted to clip the wings of the island’s tourism authority.
He was speaking after Kevin Dallas, the Bermuda Tourism Authority chief, stood down last month just after Zane DeSilva, the tourism minister, warne...
DATE: Mar 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Tourism | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
An Opposition politician claimed that the “wheels are off” the island’s tourism organisation after its chief executive quit the job.
Leah Scott added that the results produced by the Bermuda Tourism Authority proved Kevin Dallas had the expertise to ...
The chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority is to quit the job tomorrow, it was announced yesterday.
Kevin Dallas will step down after three years in the post — over which the island notched up record numbers of visitors.
However, the move w...
February 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X or El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Two days before his death, in 1965, the photographer Gordon Parks interviewed him. Malcolm’s words follow:
“Listening to various African leaders awakened ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Glenn Fubler
Mr Premier, I implore you to take your Brexit Committee seriously. In Britain this week, the Prime Minister’s special political adviser, Dominic Cummings, hired a 27-year-old adviser called Andrew Subisky. Within 48 hours, Mr Subisky had quit, owing ...
Many things divide the 27 member states of the European Union these days, but one controversy in particular sums up the bloc’s fundamental dilemma. It is over “enlargement”, and specifically whether to formally start accession talks with North Macedo...
Energy independence is possible in Bermuda if the island moves away from its reliance on a single energy provider, a government minister said.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, travelled to Barbados and Jamaica late last year, where he witn...
DATE: Feb 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Business Staff
