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Health spending dropped 1.7 per cent over the previous year for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, the Bermuda Health Council has reported. That decline coincided with a 0.7 per cent drop in the Island’s population, and an 8.5 per cent rise in he...

Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, has issued a statement maintaining that Victoria Pearman, the Bermuda Ombudsman, was in error when a report cited maladministration on his ministry’s behalf. Senator Fahy spoke after his dismissal of the re...

A recent civil service hiring freeze will not have an impact on the hiring of substitute teachers, the Department of Education announced this afternoon. A statement issued by the department said that “the matter relating to the hiring of substitute t...

Dorothy Packwood, an artist and educator credited with guiding the Island’s first definitive histories of slavery in Bermuda, has died at the age of 93. The wife of the late historian Cyril Packwood, Mrs Packwood was “a woman born before her time”, r...

The windy weekend blew in an extra surprise for expecting parents Dmitry Ledyaev and Sabrina Chasseriauds. Their son and first child, Roman Louis Dmitrievich Ledyaev, was born right as Hurricane Joaquin was edging past and battering the Island. Roman...

The Island’s first hurricane of the season has been ranked a lucky miss, with relatively few reports of property damage taken by insurers. Joaquin had moved 185 miles north of the Island by noon yesterday, leaving Bermuda battered but spared the deva...

The Island and its role in the dark years of the Second World War feature in a current best-seller 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History. As the United States and president Franklin Roosevelt grappled with arguments over how to intervene in the...

United States leadership coach John Maxwell is on a mission to change the way residents think, according to a founding local member of his team. “I used to joke that the sun never sets on the John Maxwell team,” said Bob DiGiacomo, who calls Mr Maxwe...

A dedicated stalwart of the Bermuda Anglican church, Mildred Hill, has been remembered by family as “a humble kindred spirit — gentle, with a pillar of strength”. Ms Hill, who died on September 23 at the age of 78, was “very loving and caring to all ...

Legal action is now under way over the lease and development agreement for the long-defunct 9 Beaches resort at the West End, which has been unused since 2010. The Bermuda Land Development Corporation (BLDC) is taking developer IRC Sandys Ltd to cour...