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around-the-clock effort by Bermuda Electric Light Company crews to restore lines brought down by Hurricane Gert. The majority of the 12,000 households which suffered power outages were reconnected while the hurricane still raged on Tuesday. But a Bel...

to deliver the damage and destruction it had threatened before it swept past Bermuda yesterday. Forecasters originally feared that the eye of the hurricane would come within 60 nautical miles of the Island, bringing with it winds of more than 100 mph...

A Government Minister and his shadow joined forces to condemn criticisms of the Island's drug testing policy in sports. Both Youth and Sports Minister Dennis Lister and Shadow Youth and Sport Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin spoke out after drug abus...

action should Hurricane Gert wreak havoc to power lines. The company began preparations for the storm several days ago by ensuring that all trucks were fully fuelled and stocked with essential repair equipment in readiness for mass call-outs. And a c...

A yachtsman who wrote an inspirational book about his voyage through life with terminal cancer has died from the disease. Phil Wilson, who published "Life Lines'' last year, died at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital last Wednesday after battling the ...

A drugs researcher has blasted Government policy on drugs testing in sport for "taking people away from sports''. Walton Brown, who has carried out extensive research on behalf of the National Drug Commission, launched the broadside following revelat...

*** Another summer nearly over, another annual show at Dockyard with a horticultural theme to see. I've been doing these reviews for -- gosh is it really two years now? -- and sometimes it can get a bit testing to come up with some new observation t...

after offering voluntary retirement to a host of staff. A celebration leaving party was held last week after 31 of the 38 staff offered the pension packages opted to clear their desks and retire. The figure represents 7.75 percent of the company's 40...

in the last four years, according to the latest statistics. And it would appear women are making the most complaints, with nearly 25 percent of investigations being into cases of discrimination because of pregnancy. Last year the Commission launched ...

One of the first tasks of any future Press council should be to take a hard look at "a Bermuda government which admits that it denies the public its right to know'', according to former Royal Gazette Editor David L. White. Earlier this summer Telecom...