Category: News
24 Students Receive $772,000 In Scholarships
24 exceptional Bermudian students who met high standards for academics and character have been awarded Bank of Bermuda Foundation Scholarships and awards worth a total of $772,000. The scholarships range in value from $1,500 one time awards to scholarships valued at $30,000 per year for up to four years, with each of the recipients meeting minimum standards,... Read more of this article
Vogue: “The Most Stylish Street In Bermuda”
Vogue Magazine has taken the time to highlight “the most stylish street in Bermuda,” showcasing Hamilton’s Front Street and calling the island “a tropical Arcadia set among the coral reefs of the Atlantic.” The story said “With its limestone cottages painted in sherbet-color hues, golf courses as green as shamrocks, powdery... Read more of this article
‘Tourism Forward’: Attracting Film Productions
[Part of the Bermuda Tourism Authority’s ‘Tourism Forward’ series] Bermuda is on the short list of locations for a major motion picture. As the certified film commission for Bermuda, the Bermuda Tourism Authority [BTA] assisted the film’s producer with location scouting on the island during previous visits and helped facilitate... Read more of this article
Bermuda Flag Emoji On Twitter For Olympics
With the 2016 Summer Olympic Games set to get underway in Rio today [Aug 5], Twitter has released a set of 207 new emojis, representing various national flags using a three-letter hashtag, including #BER for Bermuda, which when used, automatically renders a Bermuda flag. A story on the official Rio 2016 website says, “”The Olympic Games... Read more of this article
Butterfield Bank Files For Proposed IPO In U.S.
In a filing with the Bermuda Stock Exchange, the Bank of Butterfield announced that it has “filed a Registration Statement on Form F-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] relating to the proposed initial public offering in the United States of the Bank’s ordinary voting shares.” The filing stated,”"The... Read more of this article
Police Seeking To “Locate” Two Visitors To Island
[Updated] The police said they are “interested in locating and speaking with” two visitors to the island, and provided photos of two people they said are “believed to be 23-year-old Alecia Cargill and 35-year-old Omar Dailey.” A police spokesperson said, “Police are interested in locating and speaking with visitors to the... Read more of this article
Court: Man Denies Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
In Magistrate’s Court today, a 21-year-old man pleaded not guilty to a charge that between a date unknown and January of this year, he had unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl over the age of 14 but under the age of 16. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo set Mention for 25th August, set bail at $5,000 with one surety, and ordered that he have no contact with... Read more of this article
Officers Assaulted, Police Search For Suspect
While police were responding to an incident in Paget this afternoon a “person of interest” assaulted two officers and fled the area, resulting in both officers being taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and police now searching for the suspect. Police Media Manager Dwayne Caines said, “Police responded to an incident that took... Read more of this article
BHeC Release Latest Claim Regulations Report
The Bermuda Health Council has released the Claims Regulations Report, which represents activity between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016. BHeC said, “Claims data shows that patients continue to have decreasing out-of-pocket expenses. “The enactment of the 2012 Health Insurance [Health Service Providers and Insurers] Claims Regulations... Read more of this article
Court: Man Denies Sending Offensive Message
Appearing in Magistrates Court this morning [August 4], a 76-year-old man denied sending an offensive and menacing message, and also requested restitution in the amount of $35 million a day for the police allegedly taking his car. Abdullah Furqan denied that on 7th July 2016, he had used public telecommunications to send a message that were offensive... Read more of this article
Public Submit 300 Ideas For Cross Island Use
More than 300 ideas were submitted for the use of nine acres of reclaimed land at the Royal Naval Dockyard. “The number of submissions was astonishing given that we only had a handful of weeks to publicise this,” said Wayne Caines, chairman of the Cross Island Legacy Committee. “I said at the start that I wanted 150 ideas, so to double that is... Read more of this article
BMOC Deal With Seven Incidents On Sunday
On Sunday, the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre Duty Officers handled seven incidents, including an unconscious male being recovered from the water in Mangrove Bay, unruly behaviour onboard a tour boat in the Mangrove Bay area that resulted in the stabbing of one individual, and a female suffering from a “mixture of sun-stroke and possible alcohol... Read more of this article
