Month: October 2024

Sometimes when the cruise ships are in, we don’t even know they are here, Dockyard business owners say.

Heidi Cowen, administrator of the Dockyard Arts Centre, believes Bermuda needs to re-evaluate its cruise ship tourism industry.

“It is a very quiet in Dockyard,” she said. “The types of ships that are coming in need to be looked at again.”

Last month, Wayne Furbert, the Minister of Transport, said 120 cruise ship calls took place in the first three quarters of 2024 with another 57 listed to take place before the end of the year, bringing an estimated 548,064 passengers to the island.

Ms Cowen called these numbers “a great illusion”.

“Our cruise ship picture is not really the best,” she said.

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Juan Wolffe: community spirit needed to solve homelessness

Oct 12 2024 Hamilton Bermuda:

Speaking out: Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe delivers a presentation at the first Ending Homelessness Together conference (Photograph by Blaire Simmons)

A Supreme Court judge called on the community yesterday to do more to help people who are homeless and said there was a risk that the issue could become the island’s legacy if further action was not taken.
Juan Wolffe spoke at the first Ending Homelessness Together conference, which was held at the Bermuda Industrial Union headquarters in Hamilton.
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