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A barber who played a major role in the Theatre Boycott that helped demolish segregation and whose business served as a hub for the community has died. Earlston “Scratchie” Lawrence was 95. Friends said Mr Lawrence, whose shop is on Angle Street in N...

A longstanding leader of the British Virgin Islands, Ralph O’Neal, died yesterday. He was 85. David Burt, the Premier, said Mr O’Neal, who served as the British Overseas Territory’s premier from 2007 to 2011, was BVI’s longest-serving elected represe...

An orphanage and school in Haiti run by Bermudian philanthropist Phillip Rego has suffered through weeks of political unrest in the poverty-stricken country. Mr Rego said yesterday: “Kids are getting robbed or molested and going with fear all the tim...

A low-flying light aircraft is to survey the island this month, it was announced yesterday. The survey will be carried out by Britain’s Hydrographic Office as part of its Overseas Territories seabed mapping programme. The aircraft will fly twice dail...

The General Post Office and Perot Post Office in Hamilton will both be closed today from 9am to 10.30am. The main office on Church Street, as well as the Queen Street office, will be shut for a staff meeting and reopen afterwards.

A free course on blockchain and fintech business is on offer from the Government’s fintech business unit. The course, run with expert group BermudaChain, will be made up of seven sessions from tomorrow until November 26 and will end with an examinati...

A longstanding leader of the British Virgin Islands, Ralph O’Neal, died yesterday. He was 85. Mr Burt, the Premier, said Mr O’Neal, who served as the UK Overseas Territory’s premier from 2007 to 2011, was BVI’s longest serving elected representative....

A veteran of the Korean War and the Suez Crisis, Donald Jolliffe has a tattoo on his arm designed to highlight the strict code of his specialist unit in Korea. Mr Jolliffe said: “It means ‘death before dishonour’ — that’s why I don’t want to break se...

A Bermudian opera singer and teacher with an international reputation who nurtured the island’s singing talent has died. Marcelle Clamens was 65. The mother of three who founded the Talent Explosion with her husband, Michael, was a lifelong singer wh...

Two senators are the lone contenders in the by-election on November 21 for Pembroke Central, the constituency left vacant by the death of sitting Progressive Labour Party MP Walton Brown last month. At the close of nomination day yesterday, the conte...