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A householder was yesterday counting the cost of a lightning strike which wrecked his home. The strike blew off the chimney and part of the roof, badly damaged a double fireplace and blew all the electrics at the Mount Pleasant Road, Sandys, house. O...

The burger is set to bite back after Governor Thorold Masefield finally signed an act banning fast food franchises with a foreign flavour. Mr. Masefield's signature makes law the Prohibited Restaurants Act -- killing off plans by Grape Bay Ltd to ope...

A massive strike by US employees of parcel service UPS has crippled the Bermuda end of the firm and could lead to lay-offs, it was revealed yesterday. United Parcel Service Island general manager Eddie Lamb said the volume of imports and exports had ...

Law and order Minister Quinton Edness yesterday backed a massive Police offensive designed to drive drug dealers from the streets. He torpedoed claims by overseas academics that the beneficial effects of Operation Cleansweep on the war on drugs could...

Teacher and author Dale Butler is set to chuck his job in favour of a seat in Parliament for the Progressive Labour Party. It is illegal for teachers to keep their jobs and be MPs -- and Mr. Butler, if he wins a seat, revealed he would give up his he...

Bermuda Police three years ago is to be the third man in a major probe into the force's drugs squad, it was revealed yesterday. Her Majesty's Inspector of Dependent Territories Police Forces Lionel Grundy completes the three-man Commission of Inquiry...

contract runs out next March. For asking him to stay on in the interests of the force is still an option for Government, Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness said last night -- although he stressed no decision had been made. Mr. Coxall las...

A massive Police drugs-busting operation may have fuelled a crime wave, a top academic has claimed. And the US professor said the effects of the Bermuda force's Operation Cleansweep could be minimal in the long-term. Dr. Jeffrey Fagan, Professor of P...

A spokesman for Governor Thorold Masefield yesterday hammered home the message that the Governor had not advised that Government Minister Irving Pearman should go over a claimed Police probe into sex and drugs allegations. And Deputy Governor Peter W...

Masefield to make a public statement on an alleged sex and drugs probe centred on Environment Minister Irving Pearman. Shadow Labour and Home Affairs Minister Alex Scott said: "This situation requires the Governor or Deputy Governor to put the truth ...