Sunday November 1st: “Good News” Spotlight
News that Saltus students earned international public-speaking honours, Shiona Turini styled Beyoncé for a new i-D publication, and Bermuda Police Service officers and staff donated $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity Bermuda were among the positive news stories from the past week.
In additional good news, Sarai Hines led a community mural project with young people at St Basils in Birmingham, Bermuda College signed a Paris art-school agreement opening a degree pathway for eligible graduates, and Somersfield Academy highlighted its four Equity Scholars.
More good news included the Bermuda Powerlifting Association raising over $1,100 for the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre through its Press for the Chest charity event.
In sports, Nia Christopher earned FH Hafnarfjörður’s leading women’s goalscorer award after scoring 17 goals, Bermuda’s young triathletes retained the Carifta title with 329 points, and Jaydon Roberts and Braeden Fraser won archery gold in Guyana.
Other sporting achievements included Lee Terceira winning the girls’ under-12 singles and doubles titles in Atlanta, Lauren Cardwell and Toronto winning the OUA field hockey championship, Elan Daley winning four events in Toronto, and Elijah Daley winning the 200m butterfly in Calgary.
Westtown’s team, which includes Malik Paynter, Amori Simons and Amir Weller, won the FSL title, Cody Robinson scored as Thomas College secured its 500th programme win, and Jace Donawa scored in North Carolina’s 6-0 victory.
We also posted a photo gallery of the Allan Warner memorial march, celebrating the late Gombey leader’s life and contributions to Bermuda’s culture.
In an effort to highlight some of the positive news happening in our community, we supplement our standard morning and evening email newsletters with a special Sunday “Good News” email newsletter edition, and also produce a highlight article which strictly focuses on the positive news about Bermuda and Bermudians from the past week. You can sign up to have the free newsletter delivered via email by clicking here, and/or access the links below.
In addition, for those who like positive news, please feel free to visit our sister site ForeverBermuda.com, which seeks to showcase uplifting Bermuda news and visitor related services, or visit BermudaCovers.com, which offers an array of free Facebook and social media cover images, graphic designs and videos to assist you in showing off your Bermudian pride on social media!
Links to some of the ‘good news’ from the past week are below:
