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Legislation to encourage superyacht visits and block public access to information requests about the Financial Policy Council were approved without opposition in the Senate yesterday. The Superyachts and Other Vessel (Miscellaneous) Act 2019 received...

A serial conman has admitted defrauding a man of more than $6,000. Jonathan Ratteray, 32, from Smith’s, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of fraudulent inducement to invest. The Supreme Court heard that Ratteray convinced Che Powell to invest $6,6...

Thousands of people have pledged on social media to “storm the Bermuda Triangle” as part of a spoof event that has attracted global attention. More than 40,000 people have signed on to the “Storm the Bermuda Triangle: It can’t swallow all of us” even...

A section of a main shopping street in St George’s was open to vehicles on Monday — but the road was closed off to traffic again yesterday. Water Street had been closed to traffic between 10am and 4pm during the summer months. The decision garnered a...

Southside residents and businesses have been warned to watch their water consumption because of low rainfall. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Land Development Company said signs had been placed around the area to alert people to low levels in the reser...

A member of Bermuda’s Youth Parliament beat an international field to win top honours at a Caribbean competition. Halle Teart, an 18-year-old sociology and Africana studies student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, came first in a debate on t...

A rare Brazilian seabird was spotted in Bermuda recently — and may have been trying to nest. The Bermuda Audubon Society said the Trindade petrel was seen only a few feet from a footpath at Spittal Pond. A BAS newsletter said: “Robert Branco was visi...

Bermuda’s biggest thrift store has a plan to expand. The Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda, which runs The Barn on Devon Spring Road, has filed a planning application to demolish the smaller of the two buildings on the Devonshire site and replace it wit...

The history of abolitionist and National Hero Mary Prince is to be the focus of a series of events this summer. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, told the House that special tours designed to showcase Mary Prince’s B...

A homeowner near a former golf course where the new owners want to build 18 luxury homes said yesterday that the plan by developers was “putting up buildings for rich people and to enrich themselves”. The objector, who asked not to be named, added th...