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The death of former Premier Sir John Sharpe has caused shock among his former Parliamentary and Cabinet colleagues. Acting Premier Eugene Cox said yesterday: "I certainly want to offer condolences to his family on behalf of the Government and the peo...

may receive a reprieve from the Swiss government. Local Amnesty International member Brian Horsfield said he has met Gopinath Chandrasegaram twice in Switzerland where the teen is back with his parents and sister. Dr. Horsfield said education and emp...

Despite heavy clouds and some rainy weather late yesterday, the Island still faces a severe drought coupled with heavy demand from users. And a Weather Service spokeswoman has said the outlook "just doesn't look positive'' to get the six inches of ra...

jams in Paget and in the City. Emergency roadwork by Bermuda Electric Light Co. on Harbour Road between Lover's Lane and Highwood Road and the closure of Front Street for Harbour Nights caused extensive delays for people trying to leave Hamilton. Tra...

blacks caused a clash in the Senate yesterday. United Bermuda Party Senator Mark Pettingill opened the debate during the motion to adjourn by calling on the Government to "clarify its position with regard to race''. He said there was a perception in ...

Workers will suffer if Government's tourism policy does not turn the industry around soon, an Opposition MP has claimed. And C.V. (Jim) Woolridge -- a former Tourism Minister -- said "the buck'' stops with Tourism Minister David Allen when it comes t...

Chief Justice Austin Ward handled a family affair last week when in a matter of hours he sent a man to prison and deferred sentencing his father. Adib Abdul-Jabbar, also known as Stephen Fredrick Cann, and Neko Noel Cann both appeared in the Supreme ...

spend the next two years behind bars. After mulling the fate overnight of 30-year-old career criminal Richard Michael Dill, Chief Justice Austin Ward on Friday said despite "strong'' arguments from Dill's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher for probation ra...

Middle Passage during the African slave trade. Held near Fort St. Catherine in St. George's, the ceremony featured the Warner Gombey Group, and descendants of slaves on the Enterprise who chose to be emancipated in Bermuda rather than return to the U...

Bringing more young people into the African Methodist Episcopalian Church will be the focus of two newly-ordained Bermudian ministers completing their studies in Atlanta, Georgia. The men, Jamaine Tucker and Terry Hassell, spoke to The Royal Gazette ...