Archive for January 2nd, 2011
Videos: New Year’s Day Motocross
Yesterday [Jan 1] saw the second round of competition in the 2010/11 Bermuda Motocross Association’s racing season at the Southside Moto Sports Park in St David’s. Class winners included Keon Glasford, Logan Jones, Kai’Jun Simons, Jayden Ming, Rajul Mathie-Shakir, Dale Boorman, Jamal Pitcher with Zico Majors picking up the win in the expert... Read more of this article
Photos & Results: New Years Day Motocross
The second day of competition in the 2010/11 Motocross Season took place yesterday [Jan 1] at the Southside Moto Sports Park in St David’s. Keon Glasford took the day’s honors in the Pee Wee Class, while Logan Jones won the 50cc Class. Kai’Jun Simons won the 65cc 7 – 9 Class, while Jayden Ming won the 65cc 9 – 11 Class, Rajul Mathie-Shakir... Read more of this article
Bermuda Lose 2-0 to Long Island Team
The Bermuda National Under/20 Team matched up against the visiting Long Island Rough Riders yesterday [Jan 1] at the Somerset Cricket Field. Pictured below in red is Jamel Swan for Bermuda, and in the blue is Benjamin Arikian: After a scoreless first half, the Long Island Rough Riders took the lead in the 68th minute after Keith Detelj curled a right... Read more of this article
BF&M Signs Talend Data Deal
BF&M has chosen Talend’s open source data management solution to streamline the company’s data migration processes between systems. The company chose Talend, after a thorough evaluation of a broad range of products, to reduce the time and improve the performance of migrating and maintaining constantly changing customer service databases and... Read more of this article
Polar Bear Club: Bermudian Takes Chilly Plunge
While Bermudians have endured record cold temperatures lately, one Bermudian took experiencing the ‘cold weather’ to a whole new level yesterday [Jan 1] swimming in chilly Canadian waters with the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Club. Bermudian Dale Hines of Hamilton Parish took the chilly plunge into the 42 degree fahrenheit waters of English... Read more of this article
US Firms Ask For Off-Shore Profits “Tax Holiday”
American corporate leaders who met with President Obama in the run-up to Christmas asking for a “tax holiday” if they repatriated money held in off-shore domiciles like Bermuda, have already found ingenious methods of avoiding the US taxman, Bloomberg is reporting. The on-line business and financial news service says at the December 15... Read more of this article
CACAC Announce 2010 Bermuda Athletes of Year
The 2010 Central American and Caribbean Athletics Confederation [CACAC] announced Shianne Smith [pictured to the left] and Tyrone Smith as Bermuda’s Female and Male Best Athletes of 2010. Earlier this year, Shianne Smith shattered the Bermuda National Heptathlon Record with 5,127 points. She studied kinesiology at Cal State University, and competed... Read more of this article
Broken Main Disrupts Hotel Water Temporarily
A broken water main at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel briefly interrupted water supply overnight, however the engineering crew worked through the night to restore water access for this morning [Jan 2]. Shelley Meszoly, Regional Director of Sales & Marketing Fairmont Hotels Bermuda, confirmed that a major water main at the hotel broke in the middle... Read more of this article
‘Police Chase’ Crash Victim Airlifted Overseas
One of the gentleman involved in the New Year’s day crash was airlifted overseas for further medical care at approximately 11am this morning [Jan 2]. At approximately 3:35am yesterday morning [Jan 1] the motorbike collided with a Police “paddywagon” on the corner of Court and Angle Street. Both the Police and bystanders indicate that... Read more of this article
Injured Man Arrives in Bermuda via Helicopter
[Updated] At approximately 11:30am today [Jan 2] the US Coast Guard airlifted the deputy captain from the 274 metre ‘Aegean Angel’, after he received injuries in an incident which tragically killed two other men. On December 30th, the 47-year old captain and a 33-year old chief mechanic were killed, and the 34-year old Cypriot deputy captain was... Read more of this article
Bermuda’s Magma is Set To Erupt
The mournful track “When I Cry” brought Bermudian reggae artist Magma to attention when it was released in Jamaica this past summer in the wake of the Tivoli tragedy. “When I Cry” is about the violence which resulted in more than 70 deaths when security forces invaded the Kingston community of Tivoli to arrest Christopher (Dudus)... Read more of this article
Videos: 2012 Gombeys on New Year’s Day
As they have since the days of slavery, Bermuda’s gombey troupes were out yesterday [Jan 1] to help celebrate the New Year. One of the earliest surviving written accounts of the Gombeys’ Christmas activities dates from 1829. In a series of letters from the island collected in the book “Sketches of Bermuda”, English abolitionist Susette... Read more of this article
