Total claims costs from 2016-2024 hit $1.1trn for Bermuda commercial re/insurers: BMA

From 2016 to 2024, Bermuda commercial insurer and reinsurer incurred $1.1 trillion in gross claims costs to policyholders and cedants globally, according to data from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). Over the nine-year period, Bermuda...

Vision Bermuda shares ambitious expansion plans

Created: Sep 15, 2025 08:21 AM (Updated: Sep 15, 2025 08:21 AM) High hopes: Erica Ingemann, the executive director of Vision Bermuda, intends to increase awareness of the skill sets of people with vision impairment (Photograph by Alva Solomon) The...

Trillion-dollar tab for Bermuda insurance market

Created: Sep 15, 2025 08:00 AM Bermuda’s commercial insurers and reinsurers incurred $1.1 trillion in gross claims costs to policyholders and cedants globally during the nine-year period from 2016 to 2024, according to Bermuda Monetary Authority...

California extends climate program, local assemblyman reacts

BERMUDA DUNES, Calif. (KESQ) – Local Assemblyman Greg Wallis reacted to Saturday’s vote on California’s ‘cap-and-trade’ program. State lawmakers, with a democratic majority, passed AB 1207 earlier in the day. AP reported the program set a...

Ecologically minded students win scholarships

Created: Sep 15, 2025 12:41 PM (Updated: Sep 15, 2025 12:41 PM) Loryn Ming, recipient of the 2025 Bermuda Zoological Society Steinhoff Scholarship (Photograph supplied) The Bermuda Zoological Society has presented scholarships to three students as...

Bermuda Is Love #LessIsMore Campaign

Bermuda Is Love is launching its #LessIsMore campaign this September to challenge fast fashion’s wasteful system and promote sustainability through clothing drives, workshops, and free giveaways. Changing the Fast Fashion Industry: Why “Less is...

Political Playback: California Capitol News You Might Have Missed    

Stay informed! Stay empowered! Join our FREE newsletter today! By Bo Tefu and Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media Supporters Push Gov. Newsom to Sign Bill Granting Admissions Preferences to Descendants of Enslaved People Two days after...

‘Bermuda triangle of intelligence’ impeding fight against waste crime, peers told

Endangered Animals

Endangered creatures are numerous, and many aren’t even known to most of us - we seem to only get to know about the famous ones, unless we specialise in extinction. We know about Giant Pandas because their predicted extinction has become...

Stocks with sustainable dividends that could be takeover targets

What are we looking for? Sustainable dividends from stocks that have the added benefit of takeover appeal. The screen This week’s announcement that Canadian copper miner Teck Resources Ltd. TECK-B-T has agreed to be acquired by global giant Anglo...

Bermuda Hosts Sargasso Sea Side Event

On August 28th, the Sargasso Sea Commission in collaboration with the Government of Bermuda hosted a side event at the second session for the preparatory commission for the entry into force of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction...

Bermuda tenders up to 10 MW of floating solar

The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda is inviting expressions of interest from developers to build up to 10 MW of floating solar across one or more selected sites. The deadline for applications is Nov. 4. September 9, 2025 Patrick Jowett Bermuda’s...

Exclusive Member of Reinsurance Class of 2025: Duperreault’s Cedar Trace

There are certain traits of hard reinsurance market cycles: prices rise, terms and conditions tighten, and new Bermuda reinsurers are formed to help fill capacity needs — known in the past by the market as the “class of 1992,” “class of 2001,” or...

Minister Rabain Leads Bermuda Delegation at Universal Postal Union Congress

The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Digital Innovation, the Hon. Diallo Rabain, JP, MP, accompanied by Permanent Secretary Jeane Nikolai and Postmaster General Samuel Brangman, is representing Bermuda at the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) 28th...

Bermuda’s Eco-Schools Celebrate Achievements

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute [BUEI] and National Operator for the Foundation for Environmental Education [FEE] Eco-Schools Programme celebrated the end of the academic year “with remarkable growth and achievement throughout...

See spaghetti models for Invest 92L. Will Florida feel any impacts?

Invest 92L in the Atlantic has a high chance of becoming a tropical depression later this week. Some forecasters say it could become Tropical Storm Gabrielle or even a hurricane. See latest spaghetti models of Invest 92L. Invest 92L in the...

See spaghetti models for Invest 92L. Will Texas feel any impacts?

A tropical disturbance in the Atlantic, known as Invest 92L, has a high chance of developing into a tropical depression this week. If the system's winds reach 39 mph, it will be named Tropical Storm Gabrielle, the seventh storm of the season....

Help Bermuda breathe

Created: Sep 10, 2025 08:00 AM (Updated: Sep 10, 2025 08:48 AM) Health fair: Open Airways offered 200 free personalised consultations in 2024 to people living with asthma and COPD The average person breathes 12 to 20 times every minute, more than...

A new disturbance may punctuate the Atlantic’s peak-season calm

It’s the mid-September peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, but we are likely to see yet another week pass without any named storm landfalls. According to Michael Lowry’s latest Substack post, the past 18 days without a named storm or tropical...

More capital projects on tap to meet water demand

Created: Sep 15, 2025 07:59 AM Growing demand: Roger Todd, president and chief executive of Watlington Waterworks Ltd (File photograph) Bermuda’s economic outlook remains cautiously optimistic, with increased capital investment and economic...