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A battery of scientific instruments in a special pod which was lost at sea for two years has been turned over to their owners after it washed up in Bermuda. The 800lb pod, designed to measure ocean conditions, drifted hundreds of miles from just off ...

Contractors for a new $30 million water system for the East End — under way since last February and expected to finish by the end of this year — were announced yesterday morning. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said mult...

Bermuda’s first online conference on culture and heritage remains open for registration. The summit this Sunday, to be aired live on Zoom at 11am, will launch Bermuda’s National Cultural Heritage Policy. Speakers for the Bermuda Cultural Stakeholder...

A doctor warned last night that unvaccinated people run the risk of becoming the “vessel in which a Bermuda variant” of Covid-19 is created. Ramon Arscott, an expert in epidemiology and a plastic surgeon who appeared on a recent Covid-19 “mythbusters...

Geoffrey Elliott 1939-2021 A former Wall Street banker, author and art lover who gifted a treasure trove of paintings and antiquities to Bermuda has died. Geoffrey Elliott was 82. Mr Elliott, with Fay, his wife, who died last year, gifted a pric...

A delayed report on the establishment of a minimum wage for the first time will be tabled in the House of Assembly later this month. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, was expected to bring the report, which will also be used in setting a living wag...

A teenager was fighting for his life after he was stabbed and robbed in broad daylight. Detective Inspector Derricka Burns said it was a brazen act of violence which had “resulted in a young man being hospitalised for serious injuries”. The attack h...

Legislators today slashed liquor licence fees in half in a bid to lift the spirits of a hospitality sector hammered by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance agreed to fast-track the Liquor Licence (Fee Reduction) Temporary Amendm...

Legislation to pave the way for casinos was approved by MPs yesterday – but the Premier warned the industry would need to grow for the Government to reap its benefits. David Burt told the House of Assembly the regulatory requirements for the industry...

Just two more coronavirus cases were recorded yesterday. The infections were among 992 test results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent. Both were classed as on-island transmissions with known contacts. The island’s...