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THE Progressive Labour Party has been accused of playing the race card after launching an attack on a prospective Opposition politician. PLP spokesman Scott Simmons yesterday took a swipe at attorney Mark Pettingill ? who was unveiled as a United Ber...

POLICE have made little headway in their investigation into the slaying of Jason Lightbourne, more than a month after the teenager was gunned down. And yesterday detectives heading the investigation made another desperate plea for anyone with informa...

Canadian firm Associated Engineering, along with OBM International, was commissioned by Government to design a new Causeway last summer. The company's first task was to canvass opinion on various design options and by last August AE vice-president Jo...

A PAINTING by renowned watercolour artist Charles Hopkinson will take pride in the Masterworks Foundation's new gallery and museum when it opens next summer. The latest acquisition, The Trimingham House, was recently purchased from a Boston gallery b...

Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday said the successful conclusion to the case demonstrated the island's readiness to tackle fraud. Bermuda Police Service fraud unit investigators spent months working with the office of the US Attorney in Atlanta, G...

THE public appears to be embracing the concept of sustainable development, according to a top civil servant. Assistant Cabinet Secretary Kenneth Dill said he believed residents were "conscious of the issues facing the island ? those unsustainable tre...

THE dispute between Government and sacked Berkeley school project contractor Pro-Active Management Systems will be settled in court next month, the Mid-Ocean News has learned. A full hearing between the two sides will take place at the start of Septe...

GOVERNMENT is being "bull-headed, arrogant and disrespectful" in its quest for Independence, according to the Opposition. United Bermuda Party leader Wayne Furbert rounded on the Premier after Government confirmed it was pushing ahead with plans for ...

THE United Bermuda Party is renewing its call for Bermuda to have its own monument commemorating the struggle against slavery. Acknowledging that such a monument would be largely symbolic, Shadow Race Relations and Economic Opportunity Minister Jamah...

. Acting United Bermuda Party leader Michael Dunkley has issued the call following a spate of violent crimes in recent months. Since April one man has been killed and four others injured in a series of incidents involving firearms, while there has al...