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The Bermuda Islander has been relaunched from her dry dock in the United States and is expected to be back on the island next Wednesday. The ship was supposed to be back in the water last month but a mechanical failure occurred at the shipyard in Ja...

Two companies have been removed from a list of businesses without active health insurance policies after providing proof to the Bermuda Health Council. While one business, Pinky’s Salon, stated that they should never have been included on the list, t...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...

AmTrust has expanded its Bermuda office. The American-headquartered insurance, reinsurance and financial management firm has taken over more floor space, revamped the layout and plans to recruit at least another four staff this year. Julian Griffiths...

Lingerie stores and barbershops are giving out male and female condoms ahead of Valentine’s Day this week. The initiative was organised by the Department of Health to mark Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Day on Friday. “It’s an annual even...

Balancing work with motherhood isn’t easy. Kim Dismont Robinson was thrilled when she was offered a spot at CaribLit, a fiction-editing workshop in Guyana. She’d been selected from 40 applicants based on her work editing several anthologies published...

Congratulations! Godspeed! You’re going to be a new father and you have no clue what’s going on. Join the club, try the veal, tip your waiter. It occurred to me that I should probably try to organise my life now that I’ll be responsible for little mu...

Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...

Insurance and reinsurance giant XL Catlin is to partner with a new US-based managing underwriter which will provide commercial property insurance to small and medium-sized businesses. XL Catlin, now headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, but which still m...

Staff and PTA executives at Gilbert Institute are holding an emergency meeting to come up with an action plan they hope will save the school from closure. The Paget school is the island’s only one that provides services for the deaf and hard-of-hear...

One of the island’s longest-established sports shop businesses has relocated from Washington Mall to a street corner only a few doors away from where it started out in 1966. Four years after it moved to a unit in the new wing of Washington Mall, Inte...

Nahki Wells, the Bermuda captain, has admitted it is doubtful he will be available for next month’s first-round qualifiers of the Caribbean Cup. Bermuda are away to Cuba in their opening game on March 22 before taking on French Guiana at their final ...