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Changes in the administration of payments to families of elderly war veterans were defended yesterday by the Ministry of Finance. Officials said a new system for the payments, which included processing of claims overseas, was introduced last year to ...

A whopping 770-pound Atlantic bluefin tuna was brought ashore this weekend by a team of brothers fishing at Challenger Bank. Delvin Bean reeled in the fish on Saturday morning from the charter boat Paradise One captained by his brother, Allan Bean Jr...

Red tape has delayed carers’ payments and caused hardship for war veterans’ families, a campaigner has claimed. Caregivers said a decision to send paperwork to the United States for processing had led to delays of up to three months in the payment of...

A 74-year-old woman who died after a fire in her apartment was yesterday identified by police as Cheryl Eve. Ms Eve, the sister of LaVerne Furbert, a trade union official and former Progressive Labour Party senator, was found unconscious by a relativ...

A poker bet 50 years ago started an annual Lions Club fundraiser that has raised $1 million for charity over the years. Now members of Hamilton Lions are preparing for their golden anniversary “Gasorama” next month at the Terceira’s North Shore Rubis...

A show tonight to highlight the talent of a Bermudian actress who has performed in London’s West End has been postponed until March. Candace Furbert was due to have performed at the Ruth Seaton James Centre at CedarBridge Academy in Memoirs of the En...

Calvin Lynch, a daredevil TV cameraman with a passion for speedboats, has died. Mr Lynch was 70. Rick Richardson, the former chief executive at the Bermuda Broadcasting Company, said Mr Lynch was a meticulous photojournalist who “liked to live danger...

Bermuda’s former prison is to be reborn as a history research centre, the executive director of the National Museum of Bermuda said yesterday. Elena Strong said the Casemates buildings in Dockyard would be used to focus on “the Atlantic World from 14...

Trauma inflicted by racism has left a legacy of hidden pain, a campaigner has said. Lynn Winfield, president of Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, said that historic and recent incidents had left people “traumatised and stressed”, which surprised ...

A 15-year-old girl died yesterday after she was found unconscious at her home. A police spokesman said the girl was found “unresponsive” about noon at a house in My Lord’s Bay Road in Hamilton Parish. He added: “Despite life-saving efforts at the sce...