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Soft drinks, sweets and other select items will be hit by a 50 per cent hike in duty rates as the first stage of the sugar tax kicks in today. The tax increases will rise to 75 per cent in April. Its phased implementation was agreed by legislators in...

Tropical Storm Leslie, which was forecast to attain Category 1 hurricane strength tonight, continues to buffet the island with winds. However the meandering storm is not predicted to threaten the island — although rough seas mean a small craft warnin...

The launch of Bermuda’s new version of the cargo ship Oleander is just ten days away, according to Bermuda Container Line, which operates the vital freighter. Barry Brewer, the CEO at BCL, said construction at the shipyard in China was “progressing w...

A “very ugly scene” in Magistrates’ Court yesterday prompted Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, to criticise “a lack of proper care and treatment of our most vulnerable population”. Ms Dismont said she had observed “a very disco...

New material has emerged about Mary Prince, a Bermudian-born former slave whose autobiography stoked the fires of the British abolitionist movement in the 1830s. Prince’s story was little known on the island until it grabbed attention in the 1980s an...

A major ball hockey tournament has given a $1 million boost to the economy, the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday. Tourism chiefs said the World Masters Ball Hockey Championships had accounted for 1,200 room nights booked at the Hamilton Princ...

A celebrity go-kart race around the streets of North Hamilton is planned for next month as part of a free family event to promote a sense of community. Rick Richardson, head of the organising charity, Bermuda International Football Festival, said the...

A man who launched a knife attack fuelled by “testosterone and jealousy” was jailed for two years yesterday at the Supreme Court. Christopher Flood, 32, admitted stabbing Walter Pereira, who had visited his house to see his ten-year-old daughter and ...

Former Opposition leader Jeanne Atherden has said she regretted a rift with Nick Kempe, who quit as One Bermuda Alliance chairman after he was axed from a seat in the Senate. Ms Atherden, who resigned as party leader last week after eight of her ten ...

The Employee Assistance Programme, under the guidance of new executive director Latisha Lister-Burgess, is increasingly a resource for managers as well as staff. Ms Lister-Burgess said the EAP, more than 30 years old, retains the same fundamental mis...