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Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott yesterday said Government had never considered a straight swap of America's Consul General's Chelston mansion for responsibility for Longbird Bridge. Mr. Scott said: "I have not mooted the notion of a physica...

throat of an American tourist on Tuesday have arrested a suspect. The 56-year-old taxi driver was apprehended in Dockyard around 12.30 p.m. yesterday after the incident at Horseshoe Bay on Tuesday afternoon. The man was taken to Somerset Police Stati...

standards on medical labs. The Act -- which caused a major row over racism in medicine in the House of Assembly -- is designed to ensure any private provider of medical tests, like breast screening and blood work, has met Government-set minimum stand...

mansion last night appeared to be ruled out. Acting US Consul General Sylvia Hammond said: "That is not the way the US Government normally handles such matters when it places diplomatic property up for sale. "I can't think of any recent case where we...

to buy the Chelston home of US Consuls General, it was revealed yesterday. For Government could use the American responsibility for Longbird Bridge -- due soon for replacement at an estimated cost of $15-20 million -- to offset the price tag on the C...

Base lands lease payments from overseas armed forces has been shot down by Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons. Dr. Gibbons wrote to the Financial Times to correct statements in a special Bermuda supplement, published in May. He told the FT: "Bermu...

Black United Bermuda Party MPs yesterday united to demand Government quit playing the race card in politics. And Opposition Whip Cole Simons said: "When they feel they have exhausted all other tactics, they say `let's resort to racism'. "But as leade...

MPs clashed on Friday in a row over the cost of health care. And Transport Minister Ewart Brown -- a doctor -- blasted Opposition statements made in the House of Assembly last week about physician-owned lab and testing facilities. UBP MPs said that d...

A new bill aimed at pushing Bermuda to the forefront of the electronic shopping revolution has been tabled in the House of Assembly. The 32-page proposed law is designed to set up the legal framework for e-commerce -- computer-based buying and sellin...

Social Services Minister Nelson Bascome yesterday announced a bid to protect poorer tenants from greedy landlords hitting them with massive rent increases. Mr. Bascome said rent control generally kicked in for properties whose Annual Rental Value was...