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*** Folk rock pioneers Fairport Convention had to compete with the rugby Classic tournament in the first of two shows in Bermuda this week. And -- with due apologies to Classic winners Argentina and losing finalists Canada -- the size of the crowd a...

Members of Belmont Golf Club have come up with a plan to buy the course to keep it in local hands. The Royal Gazette has learned the members are to take a swing at forming a $10,000-a-head trust fund aimed at taking over the course, to be run alongsi...

More than $158,800 has been notched up by Government Ministers on trips overseas in the first six months of the current financial year, it was revealed yesterday. And the news means Government has already exceeded the annual Cabinet Office travel bud...

A U-turn on an exemption for MPs and Senators from payroll tax was yesterday announced by Premier Jennifer Smith. Ms Smith acted after Speaker Stanley Lowe ruled that an Opposition bill to amend the current law to include Parliamentarians was ruled o...

Government was last night blasted for hypocrisy for insisting MPs are not Government employees for payroll tax -- but introducing another bill to make them Government workers so they can claim health insurance. And Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbo...

Top UK diplomats have admitted they were stunned by the mess left behind by the US armed forces when they quit their Bermuda bases. Hugh Philpott -- head of the Caribbean and Bermuda desk at the Foreign Office -- said: "I didn't really know what to e...

relationship -- and boost Bermuda's tourist industry. Bermuda Industrial Union leader Derrick Burgess and Hotel Employers of Bermuda president Norman Mastalir joined forces at a night of celebration on the first anniversary of the Progressive Labour ...

Television station ZBM last night apologised for a report of allegations of misconduct against ex-hospital engineer Neil Crane. And the Bermuda Broadcasting Company station accepted there were no grounds for its report, claiming hospital sources said...

following Government's decision to award it a contract previously held by rivals Norwegian Cruise Line, Tourism Minister David Allen revealed yesterday. But the decision to cut NCL adrift in favour of Celebrity could lead to legal action against Gove...

The rules of the political game should be rewritten to allow more open Government, Opposition Leader Pamela Gordon said yesterday. And Ms Gordon said Ministers should be more accountable to the House of Assembly -- with questions allowed after offici...