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Emergency services in the East End have been hindered by a lack of staff for years, firefighters claimed yesterday. The Clearwater Fire Station in St David’s has been tasked with handling medical and fire emergencies for the past six years, but a fir...

A car parking area at the National Sports Centre will be used to generate power. A planning department file said the planned “carport” solar array would be installed over a car parking area at the stadium. There would be 1,498 solar panels, each capa...

Roadworks in Smith’s have been halted for the holiday period The news means that a section of Harrington Sound Road will be closed to traffic. The Ministry of Public Works said in a notice published in the Official Gazette yesterday that work bet...

Two charities have been given a holiday boost from the International Women’s Club. The IWC donated $9,000 to the Women’s Resource Centre to support its Transformational Living Centre’s education and life skills programme. The soon-to-be-opened TLC o...

Murdered footballer Osagi Bascome was remembered yesterday with a minute of silence by fans at one of his former clubs. Darlington FC Women opened their match on Sunday with the tribute to Mr Bascome, who died after he was stabbed on Saturday. The cl...

The City of Hamilton’s festive 12 Days of Giving campaign has finished with 24 winners taking home prizes. A spokeswoman for the City said that more than 1,000 entries were received for the contest through the municipality’s Facebook and Instagram pa...

Health officials have identified two clusters of Omicron, with 12 cases of on-island transmissions of the coronavirus variant confirmed. Ayoola Oyinloye, the Chief Medical Officer, said Omicron been found in people aged from “under 20 to under 60”. H...

The island’s healthcare system is braced to manage another wave of Covid-19 cases as the Omicron variant continued its spread, the Chief Medical Officer said yesterday. Ayo Oyinloye added that the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital had restocked its s...

The Christmas Boat Parade is on course to light up Hamilton Harbour tonight after a three-year break. Denis Owen the organiser of the event and owner of the UberVida charter boat, said that 23 vessels had signed on to take part and global drinks gian...

Christmas-themed drive in movie shows event helped put $60,000 in the tills of businesses, the City of Hamilton said last night. A spokeswoman for the City said the Fresh-Air Films: Drive-in Pajama Jam event was attended by almost 2,000 people over t...