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A former chief inspector in the Bermuda Police Service dubbed a “legend” by colleagues has died. Gerald James, known as Gerry, was 87. Mr James joined what was then the Bermuda Police Force in 1960 and served in roles including Pembroke Parish Consta...

British workers contracted for Belco’s North Power Station downed tools on Saturday after a delay in their paycheques. Last night a spokesman for Belco’s parent company Ascendant Group said that the contractors’ payroll was delayed through their UK-b...

A homeless man who messaged death threats to David Burt and his family has had his sentencing postponed at the Supreme Court. Jared Gordon, 30, has pleaded guilty to sending the threats to the Premier in e-mails in 2017 and 2018. The messages include...

The Bermuda Police Association has accused the Government of “ill feelings” in its employment negotiations. In a statement sent out this evening, Sergeant Andrew Harewood, the chairman of the BPA, said the Government’s refusal to honour a partial agr...

Generous donors for 16 percussion students to learn Afro-Cuban percussion were thanked at an awards ceremony on Friday. Music professor Eddie Ming, who teaches drumming from the Rhythm Lab in St George’s, presented certificates to the youngsters. Age...

A historian has sounded a warning over a bid to rename Somers Day, the second day of Cup Match, after Mary Prince, a former slave and abolitionist. Somers Day, to be marked on Friday, was established to commemorate Admiral George Somers, who ran agro...

A Bermudian researcher said she was stunned to discover one of her own ancestors as she worked on the history of slavery on the island. LeYoni Junos, the author of ground-breaking research on the ex-slave and abolitionist author Mary Prince, said she...

The island’s parks and beaches opened yesterday for camping for the Cup Match holiday and weekend. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, said campers and picnickers were welcome to set up and that camping would be allowed unti...

New information on the life of an ex-slave who became a major abolitionist figure has revealed the advantage of Bermudian researchers over those from overseas, an island academic claimed yesterday. LeYoni Junos said that her work on island-born Mary ...

A 54-year-old man who committed a string of sex offences against a ten-year-old girl more than two decades ago was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison. The woman’s victim impact statement read in Supreme Court said Pernell Brangman “groomed and...