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No secret deal exists behind Bermuda’s draft marine conservation plans that have drawn the ire of fishermen, the Minister of Home Affairs insisted yesterday. Walter Roban spoke after the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda threw down the gauntlet on t...

Angry fishermen have threatened the Government with legal action over a sweeping marine conservation strategy they said was hatched in secret. The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme, unveiled in August, proposes marine protection areas with 20 per ce...

Police have begun ticketing drivers over licence plate and vehicle tinting offences – instead of cautioning people not in compliance. The warning came after police said this week they had given the public a grace period to get in line with regulation...

Grievances over the building of a medical waste incinerator plant at Southside in St David’s are to be aired in a second public meeting tonight. It follows a stormy public meeting at the start of the month on the building of the plant by MediWaste, a...

Fines for motorists with illegal licence plates have increased 20-fold under new regulations passed by MPs. But police said officers had begun by issuing warnings to drivers found breaking the new rules, rather than hitting them with the full penalty...

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has denied that a man spent ten hours in the emergency department because of delays caused by its new electronic medical records system. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said the Pearl, the new fully electronic...

Steps to regulate the importation and use of pesticides were welcomed as “long overdue” by the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Task Force The move, announced this month by Kim Wilson, the health minister, would consolidate oversight under one m...

A seniors’ residence with ten apartments has been proposed for a site just outside Hamilton. The planning application by the Bermuda Real Estate Investment Trust, run by physician Kyjuan Brown, was posted this month and shows designs which include a ...

Government savings are expected to help boost capacity for the popular after school programme, the Senate heard today. Owen Darrell, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, told the Upper House that the programme had a waiting list of 97 clients. A...

An advisory group set up in 2015 to help keep Bermuda’s economy on a steady course is to get its first review. An assessment of the Financial Policy Council, which will include consultation with others in the island’s financial sector, is expected to...