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The owners of the island’s biggest hotel were this week locked in talks with the Government in a bid to get the Fairmont Southampton up and running again. David Burt, the Premier, told news site TNN that getting financing in place for a major renovat...

Two deaths from Covid-19 were reported last night – which pushed the death toll from the coronavirus up to 112. Officials added that there were 14 patients in hospital – two of them in intensive care. The last deaths attributed to the coronavirus wer...

Covid-19 curfew restrictions ended today at 5am, the Ministry of Health said last night. But other rules designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus will remain in force for two more weeks from Friday. They include keeping maximum group sizes to ...

Covid-19 restrictions for schoolchildren were branded as excessive and heavy-handed yesterday. Parents of public and private school pupils said that classroom quarantines, masks in schools and the ten-day test rule after travel should all be relaxed....

The site of one of the island’s best-known garden and landscaping centres has been put up for sale. The Property Group real estate firm said the asking price for the Southampton land, the home of Sousa’s Landscape Management, was $850,000. The co...

A man has been arrested in connection with a social-media scam that promised a quick return on a $1,000 deposit, police said today. But a spokesman added reports continued of people being fleeced despite repeated warnings for the public to be wary of...

The driver of a speeding car that almost hit police officers on checkpoint duty is being hunted using roadside CCTV footage because it was too dangerous to chase the vehicle, it was revealed yesterday. Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell, the head of the...

Bermuda was in the spotlight over the weekend in a US TV segment that featured an island scientist and a centuries-old sea mystery. The island’s position on the edge of the Sargasso Sea brought a CBS crew to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to...

Active cases of Covid-19 have continued to climb, up to 1,953 from the 1,882 announced five days ago. There are now 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, two of them in intensive care, as well as a new record for active infections. There were t...

Police had a narrow escape just before the start of curfew this morning when a driver clocked at 103km/h – or 64mph – just missed three officers at a traffic stop. The driver failed to stop for police at a stop in Warwick at 12.25am, five minutes bef...