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The practice of releasing plastic balloons at community events has come in for criticism again from an environmentalist. James Conyers said last week's balloon release during the opening ceremony at Cup Match gave him new reason for the minute of sil...

Housekeeping workers at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital returned to work yesterday after downing tools a day earlier to protest overtime pay. Negotiations between the Bermuda Industrial Union and the hospital's Human Resources department lasted...

owner of The Beach to open a new bar at the Odyssey Nightclub. To be called Club 40, it is understood the owners intend the club to cater to cruise ship tourists during the week and local patrons on weekends. The Beach owners Rick Olson and Kevin Bur...

Hospital have downed tools in a protest over overtime pay. At press time, the results of marathon talks at the hospital were not known. It is understood housekeeping staff, including Bermuda Industrial Union members, stopped work shortly after making...

Bermuda's juvenile laws came in for harsh criticism from a magistrate last week as a teenager was sent to an "approved society'' for the tenth time. Magistrate Carlisle Greaves told a Family Court hearing the Island must take a "serious look'' at the...

The battle with the mosquito known for spreading the killer Dengue fever is continuing with no end in sight. And the Ministry of Health has warned that if just one resident returning home or a visitor is suffering from the debilitating disease and ge...

for docks at Warwick's Grace Island. Businessman Fernance Perry's plan to allow all-weather access to the 5.9-acre island in Hamilton Harbour was blocked because it fails to protect the "essentially pristine marine habitat'' on the southward facing s...

Ambitious plans have been launched for a series of land monuments commemorating the Middle Passage of the African slave trade. And one Bermudian woman who witnessed the lowering of a sculpture 400 kilometres off the North American coast described a s...

Police officers looking for affordable housing. Some have even lived in guest houses just to find a suitable home for their families while being subject to the vagaries of the market which also leaves many Bermudians fuming. And The Royal Gazette has...

The weekend's rainfall did little to ease the Island's drought, with rainfall levels still six inches below normal. This leaves water truckers still working flat out to supply homes with the precious liquid. Just 22.06 inches of water have fallen sin...