Archive for September 9th, 2011
Cricket Board Disciplinary Hearings Results
The Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the results from Disciplinary Hearings held this week, five players faced charges with Reginald Pearman, President, stating, “I am naturally disappointed that we still have behavior that warrants such actions. “Nevertheless, the BCB will always stand firm to protect our great game and the spirit... Read more of this article
Sixteen Graduate: Hospitality Institute Programme
Recently the Minister of Business Development and Tourism Patrice Minors recognised the success of 16 young Bermudians who completed the Bermuda Hospitality Institute’s (BHI) START (Skills, Tasks & Results Training) programme. START is a hospitality training initiative that involves young Bermudians being provided a quality career based educational... Read more of this article
Squash: Franklin v Foster In Opening Round
Next week sees the start of the Bermuda BluePrinting Team Squash Championships 2011, now in its 2nd year. We have over 60 players competing in 16 teams over 4 days for the title of Bermuda BluePrinting Team Champions. Play starts on Wednesday 14th September with round one and features 8 matches between the teams of 3 players. The highlight being the... Read more of this article
Ignition Supports TLF Graduate Programme
Ignition Ltd., a leader in off-shore IT services, announced the graduation of Tilhan Chitrananda from the innovative internship programme from the Technology Leadership Forum (TLF). Ignition is proud to partner with TLF in its efforts to encourage Bermuda’s youth to become more interested in information technology (IT). The Department of E-Commerce... Read more of this article
Football: 2011 Corona League Season
Details about the 2011 Corona Football League Season were announced yesterday [Sept.8]. The season will kick off at the BAA Field on September 17th at 3:00pm with the Rubis Charity Shield match between Vasco and the North Village Rams. Vasco will be weakened as their leading goalscoring duo of Rui Furtado and Milton Ferriera have both registered for... Read more of this article
Homework Buddy Programme To Launch
Gibbons Company has partnered with well-known Bermudian football star David Bascome and his Hope4Life Foundation to sponsor a signature community programme to create “The Homework Buddy Programme”. Gibbons Company will underwrite the costs to provide teaching staff, twice a week, to assist primary students with their homework assignments. David... Read more of this article
BIU Delivers Financial Statements Up To 2009
BIU President Chris Furbert hosted a press conference this morning [Sept.9], and said the BIU financials up to 2009 have been delivered to the Registrar. Mr Furbert said, “We employed the services of Moore Stephens & Butterfield to be our auditors back in October 2009, and I am pleased to say today that the audited financial statements up... Read more of this article
CableVision Introduces 5-Channel Basic HD Tier
Bermuda CableVision is introducing a 5-channel Basic HD Tier that it is offering at no additional charge, to any standard digital Variety Tier customer who rents or purchases an HD digital converter. The new Basic HD Tier is being launched with five channels: Nick HD; LifeTime HD; Lifetime Movies HD; G4 HD; and Versus HD. CableVision plans to add more... Read more of this article
Sixteen MWI Support Workers Earn Certification
[Updated with videos] Hospitals Board celebrates the graduation of sixteen Community Support Workers with a City & Guilds certificate in “Working with People Who Have Learning Disability” at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute (MWI). The graduates are: Betty Azzario, Veronica Douglass, Faith Gilbert, Lori-Lynn Hill, Brenda Hollis, Dionne Lambe,... Read more of this article
BBFS Football Season To Start Sept. 19th
Bermuda’s Brazilian Football School [BBFS] will kick start their 2011/12 season [September to November] as of Monday, September 19th for female players, and Wednesday, September 21st for male players. This year the season will be indoors at the Dellwood Middle School Gymnasium due to a new exciting partnership. To register, visit www.bermudabfs.com... Read more of this article
Tourism Minister’s Industry Night Speech
Last night [Sept.8] Minister of Business Development & Tourism Patrice Minors addressed a group industry partners at the annual Department of Tourism’s Industry Night at the Fairmont Southampton. She spoke about a number of tourism related issues, such as upcoming tourism promotions including the Bermuda Marathon Race Weekend, Restaurant... Read more of this article
Hamilton Trenching Work Postponed
The Reid Street trenching work scheduled to start on Tuesday September 6, has been postponed due to the strong winds and rain associated with Hurricane Katia, and will now begin on Saturday September 10. The trenching will start at the Queen and Reid Streets intersection and move east to Burnaby Street. In order to minimize the impact to motorists and... Read more of this article
