–Surlena Smith, Ponda Pits, BEDC Client of the Year 2018

Entrepreneur of the Year
Anderica Gilbert

Bermuda Dental Studio

Bermuda Dental Studio specialises in the manufacturing of custom dental devices locally, by prescription from a dentist such as dentures, retainers, night and sports guards. Anderica has in mind to create training and career opportunities for other dental professionals that want to get into the field.

Vendor of the Year
Gina Thompson
Sniggles Face & Painting

Sniggles Face & Painting offers face and body painting, fun castle rentals, party planning and more to do with putting on the most memorable event. “In the near future, I would like to see my business doing live painting in hotels or any other entertaining events.”

People’s Choice
Malisa Swan
Bermuda Cupcake Company

In its eighth year, Bermuda Cupcake Company, is clearly the people’s choice. The next step for Bermuda Cupcake Company is to get a larger commercial place and hire a fun creative team.

BEDC Client of the Year
Surlena Smith
Ponda Pits

PondaPits creates organic personal care products with our health and environment in mind. Giving your body a vacation from toxins with scents inspired by Bermuda. “With the help of BEDC, I was able to transition from a corporate cubicle to my own small business cubicle, and several locations.” 

New Business of the Year
Catarina Rocha
Glamping on the Rock, LLC

Glamping On De Rock is a luxury pop-up camping experience allowing visitors and locals to connect with Bermuda’s authentic nature and culture. “As we grow our business our second phase is providing a new hospitality business, overnight glamping accommodations.”

Most Enterprising Young Entrepreneur
Mia Williams Grant
The Burning Bean

The Burning Bean creates artisan soy candles, hand poured in Bermuda.

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Jessie Marshall, Amber Simons, Nick Pilgrim and Caleb Ingham, all young Bermudian triathletes who also compete in other sports and regularly compete overseas, have been selected to hold the medals for podium finishers in next Saturday’s World Championship races.

They will be part of the ceremony on the blue carpet, smartly dressed in pink shirts and blue Bermuda shorts, representing Bermuda in a medal ceremony that is broadcast to 160 territories worldwide.

The four students were all members of Tri-Hedz, the youth triathlon training group that Flora Duffy also started with. They’ve now progressed to international competition and all of them are also competing in Saturday morning’s Age Group amateur race.

The Men’s Elite Race award ceremony starts at 3.00pm and the Women’s Elite Race award ceremony starts at 6.00pm and will be set up in the finish chute of the course, in the middle of the MS Amlin World Triathlon sporting arena, at No 1 Car Park on Front Street. The public is invited as part of the festivities, it is free to attend and can also be seen on the event village big screens.

The students said, they are “excited about meeting some of their triathlon heroes” and having this responsibility in the international event. The students have rehearsed their duties twice in readiness for the big day.

Elite athletes from 30 countries will be race in Bermuda on Saturday in the second of 8 global World Series events this season.  A prestigious global sporting event, the World Triathlon Series has attracted nearly 100 professional athletes and more than 600 amateur athletes.

Course maps and details of the weekend’s festivities are available at www.tribermuda.com

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