Author Archive: Bernews1

BELCO’s Website Hacked, Back Online Now

[Updated] BELCO’s website has been temporarily shut down this morning [Oct 30] due to it being hacked, however there has been no impact on customer account information. The Company advised that their IT department is looking into the problem and apologized for the inconvenience. A statement said: “BELCO wishes to alert the public that its... Read more of this article

Sports Tourism Strategy To Be Implemented

Sports Tourism has been identified as the best potential high yield niche segment to boost occupancy in the shoulder season in Bermuda, it was announced at a press conference yesterday. A statement from the Ministry of Tourism said: “Sports Tourism is one of the ‘core’ tourism segments identified in the National Tourism Plan to 2022. A new... Read more of this article

Fairmont Hotels Hosting Afternoon Tea

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will be holding its second annual Get Steeped with Fairmont programme this November. Expanded from a one-day celebration to a full month of festivi‘teas’, the 2012 programme is sure to impress with traditional afternoon tea services, fancy hat competitions, tea-infused cocktails and even a new, special tea blend. Throughout... Read more of this article

Hurricane Sandy Estimated To Cost $10 Billion

Catastrophe modelling firm EQECAT said initial economic damage estimate for Hurricane Sandy are expected to be around $10 billion dollars. “Damages to insured properties from Sandy will endure over several days, beginning now and extending into Wednesday as Sandy slows and persists over southern and central Pennsylvania,” a statement from... Read more of this article

Hurricane Threatens U.S. Internet Data Centers

[Updated] International media is reporting that Hurricane Sandy may affect data centers on the U.S. East Coast, and “damage to these server centers could potentially spark outages that would affect nearly everyone using the web.” The UK’s Express reports: “Massive companies like Google, Apple and Amazon host their servers in... Read more of this article

Bermuda Signs TIEA With Singapore & Brazil

[Updated] Today the Ministry of Finance announced the signing of a Tax Information Exchange Agreement [TIEA] with the Republic of Singapore. The signing took place at the Singapore High Commission in London. This TIEA solidifies Bermuda’s relationship within the Asian South Eastern Pacific region and allows for greater diversification of Bermuda’s... Read more of this article

PLP Annual Banquet To Be Held This Saturday

The Progressive Labour Party will be hosting their 45th Annual Delegates Conference Banquet this Saturday, November 3, at the Fairmont Southampton Hotel. A statement from the PLP said: “We’ll start with a cocktail reception, which will include the special Green Wave Drink, at 6pm and dinner will start at 7:30pm. The Big Keynote Speech... Read more of this article

Four People Injured, Two Separate Accidents

Four people were injured in two separate accidents yesterday [Oct 28]. Around 6:50am, there was two motorcycle collision on Middle Road in Paget near the junction with Valley Road. The rider of one of the motorcycles involved, a 17 year old Devonshire man as well as the rider of the other motorcycle believed to be a 48 year old Pembroke man and his... Read more of this article

Video: 6,264 Miles Logged On Let’s Move Day

[Updated with video] Minister of Health Zane DeSilva today recognized the organization, schools and gym that clocked the most miles on Let’s Move Day which was held on September 23rd 2012. The goal of Let’s Move Day was to get as many people as possible involved in physical activity, and during the day the participants logged 6,264 miles. The winners... Read more of this article

Gibbons Company Price Match Guarantee

Gibbons Company has introduced the Price Match Guarantee – a programme that allows customers to receive a price match on any item found anywhere for a better price. “You find a better price, we’ll match it,” said Gibbons Company CEO Paula Clarke. “We are confident in the product, price, value and service we offer, and believe in our buyers’... Read more of this article

Report: 2011 Info & Communications Technology

The 2011 Information and Communications Technology [ICT] report was released today [Oct 29] by the Department of Statistics. The report indicated that in 2011 growth in the ICT sector declined 5.7% to $239 million, ICT-related jobs declined 3.6% to 914, imports of ICT goods and services dropped to $127.9 million, and exports of ICT services fell to... Read more of this article

Majority Of Flights Cancelled Due To Storm

Due to the impact Hurricane Sandy is having on the East Coast of the United States, the majority of flights for today [Oct 29] have been cancelled. JetBlue, Delta, US Airways, AirTran, United Airlines and American Airlines have all posted cancellations for today. The storm has also prompted thousands of cancellations of flights to, and within, the... Read more of this article