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A police officer is to be charged with posting an offensive message on social media, it was revealed yesterday. A police spokesman said the Department of Public Prosecutions had approved a charge of “sending a grossly offensive message via a public e...

A Bermudian-born woman who missed her chance to get status by weeks was overjoyed yesterday to get a second chance after a government policy change. The 31-year-old said: “I think I’m still dreaming.” The woman, who asked not to be named, was speakin...

A single mother chasing her dream career in medicine has been elated to be among the winners of the Dr Barbara Ball Public Health Scholarships this year. Elinor Lucas Quarterly said her study of diabetes, a serious metabolic illness, was about more t...

Controversy over absentee ballots for voters overseas flared up again this week after the One Bermuda Alliance criticised the Progressive Labour Party for a failure to fast-track the electoral change. But the PLP highlighted other reforms it had intr...

A milestone will be marked on October 1 when voters with sight problems get their first chance to cast their ballots on their own in a General Election, a charity said yesterday. Vision Bermuda, formerly the Bermuda Society for the Blind, announced t...

There was “no question about a safe exercise of democracy” at the General Election, the Premier insisted last night. David Burt said he had met John Rankin, the Governor, to assure him the Parliamentary Registrar, Tenia Woolridge, would be supplied w...

A drop in communications between the firm running the Hamilton docks and the union representing much of its staff was acknowledged last night by Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union. Warren Jones, the chief executive of Stevedorin...

Dock-workers are working on suspended overtime in protest at cost-cutting measures implemented at Stevedoring Services Limited, which operates the port of Hamilton. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, confirmed yesterday tha...

A potential deal between hotels and unionised staff was rejected by the workers in the unionised hotel division, it was revealed yesterday. Stephen Todd, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hotel Association and the Hotel Employers of Bermuda, confirm...

Symbols of hope have risen from the flowers at a busy roundabout in aid of the charity set up to support the island’s hospice. The sea of blue butterflies at Crow Lane roundabout near Hamilton was the work of Nicky Gurret, a Bermudian artist who back...