Author Archive: Bernews1
Brookfield Reports Jump In Revenue
Bermuda’s Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. today [Feb.13] reported an increase in both revenue and funds from operations for the year ended Demember 31 compared with 2010. Backed by Canadian interests, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. is a Bermuda-based limited partnership that is treated as a partnership for US and Canadian... Read more of this article
Dockyard Arts Centre’s Winter Show
The Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard’s unjuried winter members show opens to the public on Sunday afternoon [Feb.19]. In conjunction with the opening — being held from from 3.30 to 6 pm — Russian-born artist Sonya Von Walter will be exhibiting a series of works collectively titled “Postcards From Bermuda” in the West End... Read more of this article
Yearwood Helps Set A New Record
Bermudian Ashley Yearwood and her Baylor School 4x200m Freestyle Relay teammates broke their State and National Independent High School record from last year by 1 ½ seconds. Yearwood’s record setting swim is the third record to be broken by local athletes this weekend, following after Tyrone Smith’s record breaking leap in Estonia, and... Read more of this article
Nordic American Tankers Posts Dividend
Bermuda’s Nordic American Tankers Limited today [Feb. 13] announced that it has declared a dividend of $0.30 per share for the fourth quarter of 2011. The non-GAAP measure, operating cashflow was at cash break-even for 4Q2011 — an improvement from 3Q2011. This cash flow from marine operations of the company’s vessels for the year 2011... Read more of this article
Cricket Team For T20 Qualifier Announced
The Bermuda Cricket Board has named team that has been selected to compete in the ICC World T20 Qualifier 2012 that will be held in the United Arab Emirates, 13 – 24 March 2012. Two teams from this tournament qualify for the World T20 in Sri Lanka in September this year. National Coach David Moore stated, “The squad that has been picked... Read more of this article
Frontline Won’t Ship Iranian Crude
European Union sanctions on Iran are tightening after Bermuda’s Frontline Ltd. joined ship operators controlling more than a hundred other supertankers and announced they would stop loading cargoes from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ second-largest producer. Frontline companies including Hamilton, Bermuda-based Frontline... Read more of this article
Man Charged With 2008 Offence
In Plea Court on Friday, Vincent Hewey, now aged 22, appeared before Magistrate Khomisi Tokunbo facing two charges of importing and possessing, with intent to supply, cannabis. Since the charges are indictable, and can only be tried in Supreme Court, Mr Hewey was not required to enter a plea. Mr Hewey, then aged 18, had actually been arrested in December... Read more of this article
Puffin’s Incredible Bermuda Journey
In 1497, John Cabot sailed from England in search of Asian spices but instead found Canada’s rugged coastline and islands teeming with plump, colourful seabirds known as Atlantic puffins — and now a bird named after the explorer has led scientists to the species’ previously unknown wintering waters near Bermuda. The “Boston Globe”... Read more of this article
Book Review: ‘In The Hour Of Victory’
[Written by Jonathan Land Evans] In his 2011 book “In The Hour Of Victory”, Senator Jonathan D. Smith has presented an absorbing transcription of wartime letters sent home by his grandfather, the Second World War Bermudian soldier Major Anthony F. [Toby] Smith — mostly to his wife, Faith, during the course of his military service in... Read more of this article
Over 600 STD Cases Reported Last Year
From February 13th to 17th 2012, The Department of Health will be observing its second annual Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week. Last year, over 600 sexually transmitted infections were reported; 468 of Chlamydia, 79 of Gonorrhoea, 8 of HIV, 41 of Herpes, and 4 of Syphilis, with 52% in persons under 25 years of age. A statement said, “This... Read more of this article
OBA’s Fahy On Ombudsman’s Report
[Written by Senator Michael Fahy, Shadow Minister for the Environment, Infrastructure Strategy, Planning and Housing] People who read this report must surely be struck by three things: First, what an excellent report it is! It is thorough, comprehensive, easy to read and as logical as 2 and 2 make 4. Credit must go to the Ombudsman herself, Ms Arlene... Read more of this article
Rugby Team Wins Again In Vegas
Bermuda played a 15-a-side match against the Littleton Eagles from Colorado in Las Vegas on Saturday [Feb.11], winning the match 29-24. Assistant Coach/Manager David Crofts said, “The boys had a good quality 15s match today (Sat) versus Littleton Eagles from Colorado. Bermuda scored for an early lead but by mid way through the 2nd half they had... Read more of this article
