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The Premier said yesterday he welcomed talks with a United Nations representative to defend against moves that suggested “a renewed push for colonialism” by powers such as Britain. A post on David Burt’s twitter account said: “Recently met the new Un...

An online condolence book has been set up for people to pay tribute to a former government senator and Bermuda Industrial Union veteran. LaVerne Furbert was 74 when she died last month. The Cabinet Office announced today that the condolence book was ...

Landscape work at a development site on a former golf course had helped boost the environment for birds, the Minister of Home Affairs has said. Walter Roban added “a great deal of hard work” had gone into the creation of parkland at the old Riddell’...

A group set up to make recommendations on minimum and living wages is expected to take into account workers who earn tips, the labour minister has said. Jason Hayward added that no employment sector will be left out of the commission’s deliberation. ...

A career diplomat has been appointed as the Acting US Consul General to Bermuda. Alan Purcell will take up the role next week after Lee Rizzuto, the former consul general, left the island last Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the US Consulate General Hami...

A former Bermuda pastor highlighted how people can come together and help others when he spoke at the US presidential inauguration yesterday. The Reverend Silvester Beaman delivered the benediction at the historic event in Washington DC. He invi...

A former Bermuda pastor who is to play a major role at week’s US presidential inauguration said the island played a key part in shaping his career. The Reverend Silvester Beaman, who served at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Hamilton f...

The US Consul General will leave his post in Bermuda after just six months, he said yesterday. Lee Rizzuto’s appointment will end when the new Democratic administration in the United States is sworn in next week. Joe Biden will take over as President...

A lack of preparation and a failure to connect with voters led to the One Bermuda Alliance’s overwhelming defeat at the last General Election, the party’s leader admitted yesterday. But Cole Simons, who took the reins about a month after the October ...

Records of a Parliamentary inquiry set up to look at the use of pepper spray at a 2016 House of Assembly demonstration will not see the light of day for 30 years. The news came after a decision to refuse to release records of a joint select committee...