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A master carpenter from the West End whose career spanned more than 60 years has died. Charles Rupert “Pine” Smith was 87. Mr Smith’s family said he was “hard-working, stubborn, opinionated, funny, current with all news, determined and immoveable”. ...

An abandoned car has sat outside a Bermuda Housing Corporation property for more than a year, the head of the residents’ association said yesterday. Charles Jeffers, who lives at Lily Park in St George’s, said the car was an eyesore and had been used...

The Destination Dockyard summer entertainment series will have a gospel theme on Monday. Damon Hendrickson, of Restoration Ministries, will host the event and entertainment will include gospel reggae artist Geneman and Mount Zion African Methodist Ep...

Reggae superstar Buju Banton touched down in Bermuda yesterday. The headline act for this weekend’s Unity Festival arrived by private jet at the airport at about 4.15pm. Banton waved to fans as he stepped off the plane accompanied by a small entourag...

A first-time tenant said the Office of the Rent Commissioner admitted it could not help after her landlady backtracked on an agreement to return her deposit after she quit her apartment. Yesterday, the woman, who asked not to be named, said the depar...

Plans to switch healthcare coverage under the Bermuda Health Plan will go before the public in town hall meetings set for next month, according to Kim Wilson, the health minister. In a statement, Ms Wilson said the reforms would boost health coverage...

Families affected by delays in payment of war veterans’ benefits will have their problems tackled “as a matter of urgency”, the Minister of Finance pledged last night. Curtis Dickinson said officials from the Department of Social Insurance would meet...

Nobel Prize-winning author and academic Toni Morrison was a “mesmerising” speaker 30 years after she visited the island to help mark the 150th anniversary of the Bermuda National Library. Ruth Thomas, a former government cultural affairs officer, sai...

An artist and author who lived in Bermuda for decades and whose chronicles of her childhood became bestsellers in her homeland of Canada has died. Molly Critchley was 93. Ms Critchley, born and raised in Nova Scotia, lived for three decades in Bermud...

Angry contractors plan to sue for millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work on the stalled Caroline Bay development at Morgan’s Point, two construction firms involved in the project said yesterday. The two warned legal action was “imminent” and on...