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American space agency Nasa opened its new tracking station yesterday. The station, on Cooper’s Island in St David’s, will be used to monitor Nasa space missions as a predecessor did from the same site in the 1960s, when rockets from Cape Canaveral in...

The deadline for the Devonshire Parish Council Spring 2019 Scholarship is next week, Friday November 16th. Applicants, who must be Bermudian and have resided in Devonshire Parish for at least 5 years, should submit a completed application form by th...

Schoolchildren are suffering more mental health problems, educational experts have warned. Llewellyn Simmons, director of academics for the Ministry of Education, said: “Without a doubt it’s a growing problem.” He added: “There’s a lot of stress and...

An environmental charity confirmed it has been forced to cut costs because of the knock-on effects of the 2008 financial crash. Greenrock said it had taken the “difficult but necessary” decision to make the position of executive director redundant. T...

A 21-year-old Bermudian who stabbed a rival drug dealer to death in Britain was jailed for life yesterday, Zandrae Smith, 21, who lived in Bradford in West Yorkshire, must serve at least 22 years in prison for the attack, which he claimed was in self...

The new Minister of Finance said yesterday if Bermuda’s Budget is not balanced this financial year, it will be in the next one. Curtis Dickinson said: “We are still working through the numbers, but we definitely need to balance the Budget and if we d...

A woman has claimed her foster daughter’s school tried to transfer the child to a learning support class without consultation. She said she refused to allow the move and the girl stayed in a mainstream class after her doctor recommended the seven-yea...

A school has broken ground on construction of a new building to house its international baccalaureate programme. Somersfield Academy said the building will let the school run the programme from middle school to high school. Colm Holman, chairman of t...

A nursery was shut down yesterday after a 12-month-old boy suffered a serious head injury. Michael Weeks, the Minister of Social Development and Sport, said that it was still too early to confirm if the child’s injury had happened while he was at th...

Pupils from Prospect Preschool will have a temporary new school because of plumbing problems. The children will be moved to the Devonshire Seventh-day Adventist Church, located on Roberts Avenue. A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said t...