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A war veteran’s family are owed $20,000 in unpaid benefits and are struggling to make ends meet, they said yesterday. Kerrie Aubrey, whose 86-year-old mother Maureen has spent the last month in hospital, said the family have been forced to pay intere...

Still sprightly enough to cut her own cake, Winifred Childs may be the oldest person in Bermuda after celebrating 106 years on Saturday. Ms Childs, also known as Winnie, was ushered by family and staff to the ceremony at Westmeath Residential and Nur...

A celebrated Little Venice waiter, famous for regaling customers for decades with singing and practical jokes, has died at 64. Originally from Modena, the northern Italian city famous for its sports cars, Antonino Astarita became known to generations...

Reggae artist Kemar Vershawn Brown, who goes by the stage name Vershon, was “never refused entry into Bermuda because he never travelled to Bermuda”. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, weighed in on the issue after a spokesman for the p...

Complaints over a $5 post office fee on non-dutiable packages have been listened to by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office. Yesterday, Mr Furbert said he had contacted the Bermuda Post Office to request that “this fee not be charged on...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, expressed “complete shock and disgust” after trash collection workers found human waste in garbage bags placed out for collection on Tuesday. Colonel Burch said: “We are having increasing ...

Plans for a broader, cheaper standard health coverage package to encompass all the island’s residents were given a cautious welcome yesterday. Charles Jeffers, the deputy chairman of the seniors advocates Age Concern, called a proposal to revamp the ...

Two government agencies have been ordered to draw up a complete list of public grants handed to a failed sports centre. The checks by the Ministry of Finance and the Accountant-General’s Department must include the paper trail behind a double grant m...

An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. More than 11,000 greater Bermuda land snails, bred at a British zoo, have been given a new home on Morgan’s Island, which is owned by the Be...

“Demoralised” police were considering their options last night after a further delay in negotiations with the Government on pay and conditions, their representative body said. Sergeant Andrew Harewood, the chairman of the Bermuda Police Association, ...