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Changing the law on same-sex marriage could open the door for “multiple partner marriages” on the island, lawyer Delroy Duncan told a packed Supreme Court yesterday. Mr Duncan, representing the charity Preserve Marriage, which opposes same-sex marria...

Bermuda Police Service has failed in a bid to stop a doctor from pursuing a civil lawsuit for unlawful arrest after an early-morning raid on his home. Mahesh Reddy, chief medical officer at a clinic owned by former Premier Ewart Brown, launched the p...

Opponents of same-sex marriage have been “blacklisted” by businesses and fear repercussions from the LGBT community for their views, a court heard yesterday. Delroy Duncan, lawyer for Preserve Marriage, made the claim in the Supreme Court, as he argu...

Government lawyers will argue in court that the Registrar-General was right to refuse to marry a gay couple because marriage is not a “service” as defined in the Human Rights Act. Acting Solicitor-General Norman MacDonald told a Supreme Court hearing...

A gay Bermudian and his fiancé have been granted leave to argue in the Supreme Court that they should be allowed to wed on the island. Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche, who live in Toronto, had their application to marry rejected by the Registrar-Gene...

A woman found guilty of trying to smuggle nearly $20,000 worth of cannabis into Bermuda is appealing against her conviction. Valisa Holder was pregnant when she was arrested at L.F. Wade International Airport with 1.1 kilograms of the drug inside an ...

This month’s referendum could lead to a constitutional crisis if the majority of ballots are against same-sex marriage and civil unions, a court heard yesterday. With less than a week to go before early polling on the June 23 referendum begins, the C...

Chief Justice Ian Kawaley may order the Bermuda Government to change the location of some polling stations in the referendum on same-sex relationships so they are not held on church premises. Dr Justice Kawaley indicated during a Supreme Court hearin...

Hospital chiefs will seek legal costs from a quadriplegic who was paralysed after an accident at Bermuda’s only mental hospital. Thomas Hofer, 52, recently lost an 18-year legal battle to sue the Bermuda Hospitals Board for massive damages for injuri...

A contract worker from the US has been fined $1,000 for setting off fireworks in St George’s without a licence. Brian Lemmon, 50, appeared at Magistrates’ Court this morning, where he admitted two counts of unlawfully using an explosive. The network ...