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Government healthcare premiums are set for a modest drop for “the first time in many years”, health minister Jeanne Atherden has announced. Opening Public Health Week yesterday, Ms Atherden said that the decline in premiums, just over $4, would come ...

Bill Shields has been appointed chief financial officer of the Bermuda Hospitals Board after “an extensive local and international recruitment process”, BHB announced today. Mr Shields’ designation comes at a time of “major challenges” for BHB to rei...

Randy Horton, the Speaker of the House, said that the decision for Parliament to go ahead after he initially postponed it because of protests on December 2 was entirely his own. “I was not pressured in any way,” Mr Horton said. “But certainly it was ...

A boat sent to the bottom five months ago by Hurricane Nicole is afloat once more, although the cost of the exercise is yet to be tallied. “Getting the engines running is my next mission,” Jepheth Newton said after his vessel, the Esperanza, settled ...

Beacon House, the headquarters of the Bermuda Society for the Blind, has been gifted a major endowment towards its renovation. A windfall of nearly $50,000 raised by the Lions Clubs of Bermuda was matched by the club’s international foundation, and p...

Political interference has been implied in the fateful decision for Parliament to proceed after demonstrators blocked the gates leading to the House of Assembly on December 2. Parliament had been cancelled at the behest of Randy Horton, the Speaker o...

The Bermuda Police Service has concluded its investigation into the protests outside Parliament on December 2, according to a police spokesman, with “a number of files” sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration. To date, 15 people...

Jailed murderer Wolda Gardner has lost an appeal against his conviction for the shooting of Malcolm Augustus. Gardner, 37, was sentenced on July 28, 2015 to 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole, after a majority jury found him guilty...

Ronald Raynor, a 55-year-old Pembroke resident, has lost his life in an unspecified incident in Jamaica, The Royal Gazette understands. Mr Raynor divided his time between the island and Montego Bay, where the incident is believed to have occurred. Fu...

Jason Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, has confirmed he is among protesters issued with a court summons for April 7 after demonstrating outside Parliament. A key member of the People’s Campaign activist group that turned o...