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Chronic staff shortages, a dictatorial leadership, and the promotion of inexperienced personnel to key positions are putting the lives of Bermuda’s firefighters at risk, according to the Fire Service Association. In a damning assessment of departing ...

Marijuana use could one day become as socially acceptable as alcohol, according to Government’s chief lawyer. And Attorney General Mark Pettingill said that, while he was not calling for the legalisation of the drug, the Island had to have a mature d...

Employers have the legal right to give Bermudians preferential treatment over foreign work colleagues, according to a top attorney. Lawyer Richard Horseman made the argument on the second day of a Human Rights Commission hearing into a complaint by B...

Veteran Progressive Labour Party MP Dennis Lister has dismissed reports that he intends to step down from the party and stand as an Independent. And the party today said he’d accepted the post of Shadow Minister for Quangos one of a list of Shadow Mi...

New human rights regulations that will protect gays and lesbians from discrimination could become law in a matter of weeks. And Bermuda is currently in violation of European laws that make it an offence not to provide protection for gays and lesbians...

A British police officer claims he missed out on a promotion while serving with the Bermuda Police Service because he is a foreigner. And Michael Harkin also claims that senior police officers decided not to renew his contract in an act of “retaliati...

The Heritage Wharf at Dockyard is not structurally strong enough to accommodate even regular-sized cruise ships, according to a yet-to-be-released engineer’s report. The development is currently undergoing a multimillion dollar modification programme...

Government is taking the war on crime into the playground with a series of initiatives tackling drugs and gangs. In the House of Assembly yesterday, Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley told MPs that an additional 60 primary school teachers have no...

ATTORNEYS charged with prosecuting alleged rapist Kevin Brown are confident they have enough evidence to ensure that the physician and eldest son of Premier Ewart Brown will stand trial. And they argue that California-based Brown is a sexual predator...

A CABAL of corrupt prison officers known as 'The Dirty Dozen' is helping fuel a black market economy of hard drugs and pornography inside Westgate, it is claimed. A former inmate of the correctional facility alleges that the vast majority of prisoner...