Author Archive: Bernews1

Football: Shield and Friendship Results

Despite the inclement number of football games took place across the island yesterday [Dec.18], the results follow below: Sheild: Ireland Rangers 0 Flanagan’s Onion’s 8 At Malabar, visiting Flanagan’s Onion’s advanced to the next round of the Shield with a 8 – 0 win over Ireland Rangers. Flanagan’s got hat-tricks from Keston Lewis and Peter... Read more of this article

HSBC Bermuda Executive Joins Barclays

HSBC Bermuda’s Karla Maloof, the bank’s Head of Global Banking and a member of the Senior Management Committee, has joined Barclays Corporate’s Non-Bank Financial Institutions [NBFI] team as Head of Insurance, North America. Based in New York, Ms Maloof will be responsible for developing and leading the regional strategy for the insurance... Read more of this article

OneBeacon Expands LPG Offerings

OneBeacon Professional Insurance, a member of Bermuda-domiciled OneBeacon Insurance Group, today [Dec.19] announced it is expanding its Lawyers’ Professional Liability [LPL] offerings to include network security and privacy [NSP] liability coverage, made available to its customers in two ways — as an endorsement to its LPL policy, or as... Read more of this article

Wilson To Take Helm At Sirius America

Sirius International Insurance Group, Ltd., the reinsurance unit of Bermuda’s White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., announced today [Dec. 19] the retirement of Dwight Evans, President and CEO of Sirius America Insurance Company, effective December 31, 2011. Dan Wilson, currently Chief Operating Officer of Sirius America, will become President... Read more of this article

Video: Bermuda Tax Regime Criticised

A renowned US economist says countries which lower their tax rates to attract foreign capital are “entering into a race to the bottom that will ultimately undermine their economies” — and criticises multinationals including Google for “park[ing] a lot of its international earnings in Bermuda.” Professor Jeffrey Sachs [pictured],... Read more of this article

Record Low Temperature Overnight

Bermuda became a genuine winter wonderland early this morning [Dec.19] — experiencing a record low temperature when the thermometer plunged to 54F/12.2C at 2am during a powerful storm. As gale-force winds pounded the island during the wee hours the mercury dropped with Bermuda Weather Service meteorologist James Dodgson saying: “The lowest... Read more of this article

Netball Youth League Results

On Saturday [Dec.17] youth teams of the Bermuda Netball League met up at Bernard’s Park, with Danielle Onyia the high scorer of the day with 41 goals for Signworx. Under 12 Division The Netts Green got 16 goals from Nyumi Tear and 5 goals from Nabiillah Nasir as they defeated the Colts Warriors 21 – 12. Delia Ebbin and Zahria Furbert scored... Read more of this article

Power Outage For Devonshire Residents

Hundreds of Devonshire residents lost power last night [Dec.18], due to problems with a utility pole. Power went off in the Glebe Road, North Shore and Derwent Lane area early yesterday afternoon, and then again for a brief period yesterday evening. BELCO workers are pictured below repairing a pole at the junction of Glebe Road and Derwent Lane at... Read more of this article

Berkeley Wins Capital G 2011 ‘Youth Give’

The Berkeley Institute and their partner charity The Chewstick Foundation won Capital G’s 2011 Youth Give Initiative. The Berkeley team competed against two other school teams to win a total of $12,500, of which $10,000 is to be donated to their partner charity while the remaining 2,500 can be used for any school initiative of the team’s choosing. The... Read more of this article

Results: Day #2 Welcome Home Show

The second day of the Welcome Home Horse Show took place at Botanical Gardens yesterday [Dec.18], with the event finishing early due to the inclement weather, which did not allow the fourth round of jumping to take place. This event served to showcase Olympic Qualifiers Patrick Nisbett and Jillian Terceira well as Bermuda’s other overseas professional... Read more of this article

Photos: BTFA Awards Banquet

The guest speakers ran off with the two of the top awards last night [Dec.18] when the Bermuda Track & Field Association [BTFA] held their Awards Banquet at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess. Olympians Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King addressed the gala — with. Ms King later named the Open Female Athlete of the Year and Mr. Smith taking the honours... Read more of this article

Photos: In Motion’s ‘The Nutcracker’

Dancing dolls, waltzing flowers and the Sugarplum Fairy returned to Bermuda when the In Motion School of Dance presented their second annual Nutcracker Holiday Spectacular on Friday [Dec. 16] and Saturday [Dec. 17]. Approximately 80 students, aged from seven to 18 years old, participated in the City Hall performance, which featured choreography from... Read more of this article