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Omicron, a newly emerged variant of Covid-19, has brought tougher restrictions to air travel, with Bermuda’s closest neighbour planning to shorten the turnaround time for a clear test from three days to 24 hours before travel. Here are the requiremen...

Secrecy still surrounds the decision-making that led to a payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to 28 people who protested outside Parliament on December 2, 2016, and their lawyers. Five years on from the infamous clas...

A new government administration keen to prove its ability to jump-start an economy left moribund after the recession of 2008 came to the public with a major infrastructure proposal in 2014. Communications staff for Bob Richards, the finance minister,...

The violence of December 2, 2016 is the sole reason the day’s protests endure in memory, according to a Progressive Labour Party MP. Christopher Famous was a PLP organiser when he joined demonstrators outside the House of Assembly on the morning that...

The single protester who refused to accept a confidential government payout to people pepper sprayed outside Parliament five years ago today still wants his day in court. Craig Looby insists police used excessive force during a clash with demonstrato...

As he watched from the balcony of the House of Assembly, Sylvan Richards knew that what he was witnessing marked the end of the OBA as a government. Mr Richards, who made it into the House just ahead of protesters blockading the gates, said he knew “...

Politics played a role in the Progressive Labour Party’s targeting of the One Bermuda Alliance’s airport development – but former MP Michael Scott insisted the project was foremost “an inherently bad deal for the country”. The former PLP Attorney-Gen...

Politics irrevocably tainted a review of the events of December 2, 2016 – such that two One Bermuda Alliance senators involved saw no point in attempting a report of their own. “At some, what are you going to gain?” asked Ben Smith, who with Marcus J...

A Christmas giveaway through social media has been announced by the City of Hamilton. The City’s 12 Days of Giving runs from December 6 through 17, with prize gifts going to 24 winners via the City’s pages on Facebook, CityofHamiltonBda, and Instagra...

No decision on whether to limit the size of Christmas gatherings has been made amid fears over a new strain of the coronavirus, a health ministry spokeswoman said yesterday. She said: “No decision at this time has been taken to limit Christmas events...