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A man jailed for 30 years for smuggling almost $10 million of heroin into Bermuda has claimed his ability to mount a defence was damaged by translation problems. Josef Vlcek, from the Czech Republic, was convicted in 2019 of trying to smuggle nearly ...

The Premier last night accused the Leader of the Opposition of misleading the public with his response to the 2022/23 Budget. Cole Simons, the OBA Leader, told the House that he had heard Bermuda had been moved onto the EU “grey list” because of a mi...

The Opposition’s Budget reply was last night criticised by government MPs as too long – but short on substance. Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office Minister, attacked a claim by Cole Simons’, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, that payroll tax wou...

Plans to redevelop a resort co-owned by Hollywood superstar Michael Douglas have sparked objections from neighbours. An objection letter sent on behalf of the Palm Grove Trust, which owns 38 South Road near the Devonshire property, said that the prop...

A Supreme Court judge has stood by her decision to keep a man convicted of a sex assault on a schoolgirl in custody until he can be sentenced. Jamel Simons, 38, was found guilty last year of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 2002 when he was ...

An alleged drug smuggler was told to pretend he was on his way back from a funeral days before he was found with drugs in his bags at the airport, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. Detective Sergeant Leanda Johnston told the court that phones tha...

A Hamilton hotel raised the Ukranian flag this week and announced that it has donated $5,000 to the Bermuda Red Cross’ Disaster Appeal for Ukraine. A spokeswoman for the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club said the funds will go to the Ukranian Red Cros...

The Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Foundation has thanked donors for $670,000 of support for the BHB’s Covid-19 vaccination clinic as the operation started to wind down. A spokeswoman said that the clinic, with the support of corporate and private dono...

A temporary art exhibition designed to highlight plastic waste in the seas is to open this week. A Plastic Ocean, on show at the former Dog House bar on Hamilton’s Front Street, will feature works created from marine plastic waste by a range of i...

A man accused of smuggling more than $470,000 of drugs into Bermuda told police he had bought his flight ticket in cash - then refused to answer any more questions. Detective Sergeant Leanda Johnston told the Supreme Court that she questioned Zadun R...