Type | Online Newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Bernews.com |
Founder(s) | Patricia Burchall |
Editor-in-chief | Patricia Burchall |
Founded | 2010 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Hamilton, Bermuda |
Website | Bernews.com |
Bernews is a Bermudian English-language online multimedia news website, founded by Patricia Burchall on 1 March 2010. [1]
Bernews is Bermuda's first web-based news platform providing coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Bernews also hosts several sub-sites, including:
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Bermuda archipelago consists of 181 islands with a total land area of 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi). The closest land outside the territory is in the US American state of North Carolina, approximately 1,035 km (643 mi) to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory comprising a number of islands, with an area of 54 km2 (20.8 sq mi), located in the North Atlantic Ocean, which in 2016 had a population of 65,331.
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Earlston Jewitt Cameron CBE was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. After appearing on London's West End stage, he became one of the first black stars in the British film industry. With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.
Diana Love Webster was an American actress who was known for her marriage to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.
The Bermuda Sun was a Bermudian newspaper, published on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Frederick Michael George Hall was a Bermudian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Kiera Leigh Aitken is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda. She is one of Bermuda's most successful swimmers, and has twice been named Bermuda's Female Athlete of the Year. She carried Bermuda's flag at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Tokio Millennium Re Ltd. is a reinsurance company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda with branches in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, Zurich, Switzerland and Sydney, Australia. The lines of business written include property catastrophe, workers compensation and terrorism.
Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, born in Trinidad and Tobago, was a physician, parliamentarian, civil-rights activist and labour leader in Bermuda, and is regarded as the "father of trade unionism" there: "he championed the cause of Bermudian workers and fought for equal rights for black Bermudians, thereby laying the groundwork for much of the political and social change that came about after his death". He was president of the Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) 1945–55. Gordon has been described as "perhaps the only black charismatic leader to have emerged in the island's modern political history", and as "Bermuda's most dedicated Pan-Africanist".
Rachel Brown is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for her song "Bumblebee".
Angela Barry is a Bermudian writer and educator. She spent more than 20 years living abroad – in England, France, The Gambia, Senegal and Seychelles – before returning to Bermuda, where she has primarily worked as a lecturer since the 1990s. Her creative writing reflects her connections with the African diaspora, and as a PhD student at Lancaster University she worked on cross-cultural projects. She was married to Senegalese Abdoulaye Barry and they have two sons, Ibou and Douds, although eventually divorcing.
Dante Leverock is a Bermudian professional footballer who plays for Robin Hood and the Bermuda national team.
Justin Donawa is a Bermudian footballer who plays as a forward for Solihull Moors of the National League, the fifth tier of English football, and for the Bermuda national football team. He previously appeared for Somerset Trojans, Black Rock FC and Darlington.
Lejaun Perry Simmons is a striker who plays for Robin Hood and the Bermuda national football team.
Same-sex marriage in Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, is not legal. It first became legal on 5 May 2017, when the Supreme Court of Bermuda declared that same-sex couples had a legal right to marry in the territory after a couple filed suit against the Bermudian Government. However, a bill to ban same-sex marriage and establish domestic partnerships was passed by the Parliament in December 2017 and went into effect on 1 June 2018 though same-sex marriages performed before that day remained legally recognised.
Wendell Tre' Ming, commonly known as Tre Ming, is a Bermudian professional footballer who currently plays for Bermudian Premier Division side PHC Zebras.
Liam Evans is a Bermudian professional footballer who plays for the Bermudian national team.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed by diagnostic test to have reached the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda on 18 March 2020; with individuals having arrived from the UK and US. Those individuals had been traced to back to the fourth and sixth of March. This was the first it was confirmed and some believe that COVID-19 could have been on island undetected with asymptomatic individuals before that time.