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A controversial law to legalise cannabis will be sent back to the House of Assembly after Senators voted against the bill yesterday afternoon. The Cannabis Licensing Act, which sets out a regulatory framework for growing, selling, and using the drug,...

Bermuda yesterday recorded another five Covid-19 cases, bringing the number of active cases to 21. All of the new cases, which came from a batch of 479 test results, were classified as local transmission through contact with known cases. The results ...

Government’s lack of consultation with medical professionals and the “woeful inadequacy” of drug prevention programmes were just some of the reasons Opposition and Independent senators gave for rejecting Government’s bid to legalise cannabis yesterda...

A restaurateur has welcomed moves by Government to encourage employees to return to the workplace. But Phillip Barnett of the Island Restaurant Group said the industry still needed more “sustained relief” in order to recover from “significant losses”...

A curfew is to be reintroduced after a spike in coronavirus cases, the health minister announced last night. Kim Wilson said the move was made after the island suffered an “emerging outbreak” of Covid-19 which may be be linked to the virulent UK stra...

Employees have been encouraged to return to their offices rather than work from home in a bid to boost the economy. David Burt, the Premier, spoke out after Hamilton restaurants, coffee shops and stores reported a dip in daytime trade – fuelled in pa...

The Budget will help diversify the economy and increase the workforce without a hike in the national debt, the finance minister said at a press conference today. Curtis Dickinson renewed his pledge that there would be no new taxes in the next 12 mont...

There are almost 3,000 fewer jobs on the island than a year ago, the Premier said yesterday. But David Burt predicted last Friday’s Budget laid the foundations for an economic recovery that would diversify the economy and get Bermudians back to work....

Hollywood star Michael Douglas has backed a new music video featuring Bermudian performers. Hope – written by Tony Brannon, a musician, and performed by the group Perfect Strangers – was released yesterday. Mr Douglas, who mother, Diana Dill, wa...

Reggae music station Irie 98.3FM was back on air today after the station was shut down because of technical problems. The 24-hour station closed earlier this month to move its transmitter and antenna to a new tower in Prospect, Devonshire. The move w...