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A motorcyclist who was more than double the drink-driving limit when he caused the death of a father of four later told police he had never held a valid driving licence, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Ishmael Lightbourne, 41, also admitted to off...

Police are to set up roadside breath test checkpoints across the island next weekend. A notice in the Official Gazette said checkpoints would be in operation on January 21, 22 and 23 in seven of the island’s nine parishes, with only St George’s and ...

A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps. Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...

A traditional charity walk has donated 240 laptops to primary school pupils. The Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust announced this week it had handed over the Chromebooks and protective cases to the Ministry of Education. Anne Mello, the chairwoman ...

A Supreme Court murder trial ground to a halt this week after the coronavirus forced a juror to quarantine. Taaj Muhammad, 26, pleaded not guilty to the December 30, 2018 murder of Ronniko Burchall, who was 30. Mr Muhammad, from St George's, also ple...

Another shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on the island on Wednesday night, Government House has announced. Government House confirmed in a Facebook post that 14,040 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on last night’s British Airways fli...

The Bermuda Police Service has felt the impact of the latest wave of Covid-19 with one in ten staff members off work because of the virus. Darrin Simons, the Acting Commissioner of Police, said the BPS had risen its Covid threat level to green, indic...

Firefighters said Bermuda was temporarily left without fire coverage yesterday after one fire station was closed and firefighters from the two remaining stations responded to a blaze. Three fire trucks and eight firefighters quickly extinguished the ...

The latest outbreak of Covid-19 has worsened staff shortages in the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service and caused slower emergency response times and temporary station closures. A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire Service Association said that 35 firefight...

Firefighters put out a blaze at a Hamilton Parish chicken coop this morning after receiving reports of a brush fire. A spokesman for the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call about the fire in the Crawl Hill area at 9.38am. The spok...