Bermuda pledges to help visiting islands

By Chris Lake

BERMUDA, who will host the Island Games in 2013, have pledged US$1m dollars, partly to ensure that the costs for all islanders and participating sports will be kept as low as possible.

The island’s minister for Education, Sport and Recreation, Randolph Horton MP, says that he understands the costs could be prohibitive but that the Island government has been 100 per cent behind his island’s bid.

With current prices to Bermuda quoted as over £1,100 for a holiday flying ex-London, Bermuda’s Island Games committee have already been quoted a flat fare of £400 to the island from London via New York with US Airways and are also looking into chartered flights.

They have also begun to look into subsidised accommodation with Bermuda’s Department of Tourism and the Bermuda Hotel Association considering seven hotels and, if they are oversubscribed, have a contingency plan of hiring one of the many luxury cruise ships that frequent the island.• Picture: Bermuda’s National Sports Centre

Article posted on 19th July, 2008 - 9.58am

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