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A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday was called off after all four One Bermuda Alliance members failed to attend, leaving the committee without a quorum. Financial secretary Anthony Manders, who had been summoned to attend the m...

A plan to erect a Bailey bridge over the St George’s swing bridge has been abandoned in favour of strengthening the bridge from below. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works said work on a full-scale remediation for the bridge had already beg...

Bob Richards said a summons issued by Public Accounts Committee chairman David Burt to bring the financial secretary before the committee was not legally valid. Mr Burt, however, insisted that the summons was valid and Mr Richard’s claim was “idiotic...

A man who famously attempted to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble is planning a second attempt. Reza Baluchi, who resided in Pompano Beach, Florida, made headlines in 2014 when he was rescued around 70 miles off the US coast in hi...

An influenza strain associated with swine flu could be circulating around the island, according to the Ministry of Health. However, a spokeswoman said the H1N1 virus was included in the available seasonal flu vaccine, and the precautions for the viru...

A thief jailed for eight years for a series of offences has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. Joeshun Russell, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, obtaining property by deception, making and using a false instrument and taking a...

Bermuda resident Alun Thomas is this week tackling the challenge of a lifetime — the brutal Marathon des Sables in the Saharan desert. The race, which began 30 years ago, tasks competitors with essentially completing six marathons over the course of ...

A Jamaican prisoner who was denied parole has lost an appeal after he claimed the policies were discriminatory. Leighton Griffiths, a Jamaican national married to a Bermudian, was convicted of possessing 480.5g of cocaine with intent to supply. He wa...

Colin Soares, the former owner of M. Soares and Sons and a fixture of the Spanish Point community, has died at the age of 77. Mr Soares worked at the grocery store for 40 years and owned it for 25 years before he retired in 1998, selling the business...

Government has put out a request for proposal for repairs needed at the St George’s Swing Bridge. In a notice appearing on page 26 of yesterday’s edition of The Royal Gazette, the Department of Works and Engineering has called on tenders for “install...