Author Archive: Bernews3
Dame Flora Duffy Provides Update On Injury
[Written by Stephen Wright] Dame Flora Duffy said she hopes to return to action for the Paris Test Event in August after revealing she is recovering from a long-term knee injury. The four-time world champion triathlete took to social media yesterday [May 15] to reveal she needed injections to help her battle through the end of last season after a scan... Read more of this article
Bermuda One Of “Most Beautiful Places In World”
Veranda has featured Bermuda in an article titled “The 8 Most Beautiful Places in the World to Travel This August.” The Veranda website said, “Even though summer officially ends in late September, Labor Day Weekend signals that evenings grilling alfresco and beach weekends are soon coming to an end for most people in the Northern Hemisphere. “However,... Read more of this article
Liberty Mutual Proud To Sponsor Relay For Life
Liberty Mutual Bermuda said they were “privileged to have been the presenting sponsor of Relay for Life of Bermuda, the 10th anniversary, this past weekend on May 12 and May 13.” A spokesperson said, “Teams walked around the track at North Field for 24 hours to raise much-needed funds to eliminate cancer. Relay events are held across the... Read more of this article
Occupants Freed From Overturned Vehicle
Police and other emergency service personnel attended to the scene of an overturned car last night [May 14], with the vehicle’s occupants reported to be trapped inside. A spokesperson said, “Around 10:15pm on Sunday 14th May 2023, police and other emergency service personnel were dispatched to a report of a single vehicle collision, on Harrington... Read more of this article
Video: Bermuda Inspired Cupcakes Virtual Gallery
Hibiscus flowers, frangipani flowers, treefrogs, turtles, motor scooters, humpback whales, fish, and more are some of the items included in this Bermuda-inspired cupcake virtual art photo gallery for Mother’s Day, the latest installment of Bernews’ series of ‘Virtual Shows’. This marks the 14th in a series of ‘Virtual Art Shows’ by... Read more of this article
Outerbridge & Franklin Pierce Finish Second
Ryan Outerbridge and his Franklin Pierce track and field team finished in second place out of nine competing teams at the 2023 NE10 Outdoor Championships at Southern New Hampshire. Junior Outerbridge finished as the runner-up in the men’s 3,000-meter Steeplechase clocking a time of 9:43.05. The men’s 4×800-meter relay team of Ryan Walker,... Read more of this article
Video: West Ham Fan TV Interviews Clyde Best
West Ham Fan TV recently interviewed Bermudian football legend Clyde Best to talk about his football career and more. The hour-long interviewed comes after Best – one of the first Black players to play football for a top English team – visited the current West Ham team in England, with the team saying that they had the “honour of welcoming”... Read more of this article
Elijah Daley Wins Bronze Medal In Canada
Elijah Daley concluded competing in the MAC Spring Long Course Invitational 2023 in Canada, winning a bronze medal – his third medal at the event. Daley earned the medal while competing in the 50m butterfly, clocking a time of 26.39 to finish third in the final. He also clocked a personal best time of 31.36 in the 50m breaststroke final, finishing... Read more of this article
Lightbourne: “It Was An Honour And A Privilege”
[Written by Stephen Wright] Kyle Lightbourne said he was proud of his achievements as Bermuda coach and would have stayed on had he been offered a new contract. The Bermuda Football Association opted to part ways with Lightbourne and his assistant Ray Jones on Wednesday following the team’s Concacaf Nations League campaign, where they finished third... Read more of this article
Tyler Lepley & Miracle Watts Visit Bermuda
Actor Tyler Lepley and his girlfriend, actress and model Miracle Watts, recently visited Bermuda on vacation, with the couple sharing various images of them on the island to their more than three million combined Instagram followers, with the images receiving hundreds of thousands of likes. An Essence story said, “Actor Tyler Lepley and his girlfriend,... Read more of this article
Sloop Foundation Welcomes Shawnette Somner
The Bermuda Sloop Foundation is welcoming Shawnette Somner to its team on a temporary basis as Interim Education Manager. The Bermuda Sloop Foundation posted the graphic online below, saying, “We are pleased to welcome Shawnette Somner to the team on a temporary basis as Interim Education Manager. As a veteran educator of 39 years, and with a vast... Read more of this article
Video: Worth Media Interviews BTA’s Berkeley
Worth Media recently interviewed the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s [BTA] newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer Tracy Berkeley to “discuss her role and what’s next for the revered island nation.” A spokesperson previously said, “The event marks Berkeley’s first appearance on the international stage since being appointed CEO of the... Read more of this article
