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The president of the Azores regional government today flew out of Bermuda after taking part in celebrations for the 170th anniversary of the first arrival of Portuguese immigrants. Vasco Cordeiro met David Burt, the Premier, as well as the Cabinet, b...

Police have seized ammunition and drugs in a raid on a house, it was revealed yesterday. The search at a Southampton house netted 20 rounds of ammunition, heroin, as well cannabis and cannabis resin. A police spokesman did not reveal the weight of th...

An off-duty police officer suffered a vicious attack from a group of men as his horrified wife and eight-year-old daughter looked on. The policeman was kicked, beaten and struck with a scrambler motorcycle in front of his family at Clearwater Beach i...

An attack on an off-duty police officer by young men riding scrambler motorcycles has been condemned by the Bermuda Motocross Club. The BMC statement said the incident at 4.30pm on Monday, in the parking lot at Clearwater Beach in St George’s, was “n...

The House of Assembly yesterday passed legislation to increase Bermuda’s debt to about $2.75 billion. But Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs the Government Loans Amendment (No 2) Act had taken effect on September 13. Mr Dickinson sai...

Retired Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller will head an investigation into alleged land grabs. David Burt, the Premier, announced the members of the Commission of Inquiry at the House of Assembly yesterday. A motion to set up an inquiry was tabled by lat...

Crowds of Portuguese residents gathered to cheer and wave flags to welcome the president of the Azores government to Bermuda today. Vasco Cordeiro touched down in Bermuda as part of celebrations leading up to the public holiday on Monday to celebrate...

A block party to celebrate 170 years of Portuguese culture in Bermuda brought a sea of colour to the streets of Hamilton tonight. More than 1,000 people packed Reid Street, where the area around the Vasco da Gama Club has been closed off until midnig...

Bermudians holding the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants designation can now be recognised professionally in Bermuda, in a field where only members of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda had been previously accorded recogni...

A Bermudian son of Portuguese immigrants who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War has died. Ernest Abel Benevides, who lived in Canada, was 96. Mr Benevides, whose grandfather, Manuel, brought the family to the island in 1905 a...