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Legislation designed to set up a commission to examine the creation of a minimum wage is to be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Employment (Wage Commission) Act 2019 is among six Bills expected to be discussed in what was predicted to be a...

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, highlighted the winners of government scholarships this morning in the House of Assembly. There were almost 50 awards made in a variety of areas of study. Among the winners were Taj Donville-Outerbridge, Ryan...

An all-female panel comprised four Bermudian academics and an American professor presented research on Bermuda as part of a two-day conference hosted by the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, entitled “Racialisation and Publicness in...

An all-girl debating team has notched up Bermuda’s best performance at an international competition yesterday. The Independent Bermuda team was pipped at the post in the finals by South Korea at the Heart of Europe debating competition in Olomouc, Cz...

A murderous gunman who chased down and shot a man in 2017 was sentenced to life behind bars yesterday. Kiari Tucker, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 35 years for the murder of Morlan Steede, a Jamaican-born father of one. Tucker was told he must serv...

A 16-year-old schoolboy is to take part in a summer internship at a prestigious Ivy League school. Kairo Morton will attend an invitation-only internship programme at Yale University this month. He will take part in an artificial intelligence PhD pr...

Lionfish will be back in the crosshairs this summer with a special tournament to target the invasive species. The Heatwave Tournament, organised by Blue Water Divers and Watersports, the Bermuda Lionfish Taskforce and watersports store Makin’ Waves, ...

A total of 15 students have won scholarship awards from the Department of Workforce Development. Lovitta Foggo, the Ministry of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, presented the winners with National Technical Vocational Training awards, worth up to...

Questions ranging from the emigration of Bermudians to the island’s surging rat population were fielded by David Burt during Premier’s Question Time on Friday. Mr Burt took opening queries from Craig Cannonier, the Leader of the Opposition, on the “p...

Teens whose childhoods were spent in foster care are now pursuing their dreams thanks to big-hearted donors. Tylasha DeSilva, 17, and 18-year-old Sierra Brangman, have been awarded $30,000 and $20,000 for their education by the Foster Parents’ Associ...