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Government has spent $1.6 million on infrastructure projects as part of its short term stimulus programme aimed at boosting the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. David Burch, the public works minister, said today that five of 16 proj...

Almost one in three of the complaints received by the Human Rights Commission in 2020 were claims of discrimination on the grounds of disability, according to the Commission’s annual report. The report, tabled today in the House of Assembly by Tinee...

Firefighters extinguished a car fire on Roberts Avenue, Devonshire last night. A Fire Service spokesman said the Service received a report at 10.36pm that was care was engulfed in flames and one appliance from Hamilton Station responded with four f...

Changes to the way Special Development Orders are granted could pave the way for a mass sell-off of land for real estate development at the Fairmont Southampton, an environmental group fears. Yesterday the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskfo...

Fifteen more babies were born in 2020 than a year earlier, reversing a trend that began with the financial crisis of 2008. The increase from 525 to 540 registered births does not appear to have been due to a baby boom many predicted when the world w...

For at least the last decade, when couples have said “I do”, there was a better than 50 per cent chance that neither of the newlyweds were from Bermuda. Not only were the highest number of weddings carried out between two non-residents, but the numb...

The Department of Culture is again hosting its Emancipation Youth Creativity Competition as part of this month’s Emancipation observances. And Bermuda’s young people are being encouraged to submit their poems, WhatsApp or YouTube videos, or any other...

A 22-year-old man was treated in hospital for a stab wound after a fight on Front Street in the early hours of Saturday. A police spokesman said: “Shortly after 1am on Saturday, police responded to a report of a fight involving several individuals ne...

David Burt, the Premier, said on Friday that there is “cause for optimism” for tourism in Bermuda with airline capacity increasing and visitors’ length of stay double the pre-pandemic average. In a statement to MPs, the Premier said: “Some of t...

Covid and the resulting lengthy lockdowns caused enormous hardship for many in Bermuda. People were cut off from their family and friends, they lost their livelihoods and, in some tragic cases, their loved ones. But despite everything, people refused...