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The first stage of a restructure of the school system has started, the Minister of Education said today. Diallo Rabain added that a team had been created to carry out research on how to carry out the major changes. He said that the Board of Education...

Cole Simons is to be the unopposed new Leader of the Opposition, the One Bermuda Alliance confirmed today. The party said Mr Simons was elected by acclamation after the deadline for nominations passed last Friday. Mr Simons replaced Craig Cannonier, ...

A new coronavirus case was found among 764 test results for the virus that came back to health officials today. The case was a resident who flew back to Bermuda from London on October 22. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said isolation and contact tr...

Docs for Dinner, the quarterly social event sponsored by Bermuda Healthcare Services and Brown-Darrell Clinic for local doctors, will go virtual on October 29 via Zoom. The hour-long programme will feature Infectious Disease experts Dr. Kenneth Wener...

Women’s rights campaigners yesterday backed a proposal for a special court to deal with domestic abuse cases. Elaine Butterfield, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, welcomed the idea of a “domestic violence court” and said it coul...

A trio of university students with a passion for the environment were given cash awards from a conservation charity today to fund their education for the year. The Bermuda Zoological Society awarded Freyja Kermode a BZS Steinhoff Scholarship and the ...

A series of videos designed to explain Bermuda’s political system have been created to mark the 400th anniversary of Parliament. The animated video series is intended to educate the public – particularly young Bermudians – about Bermuda’s political p...

A $5 million target was yesterday set for a new social fund designed to give a hand-up to the most underprivileged sectors of society. The Bermuda Foundation launched the scheme to support schemes that would offer “mobility and advancement for the mo...

A doctor and teacher who was the first black medical director at the island’s hospital has died. Ronald Lightbourne was 84. The father of three, who finished medical school at Loma Linda University in California in 1964, worked at Watts Health Centre...

Schoolchildren were yesterday praised for their part in a government work experience programme which was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. The closing ceremony could not be held for the professional-student relationship programme, but everyone who ...