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Government has no plans to legalise marijuana, claiming that “it is wrong to yield to a more permissive attitude socially without due regard to the social, economic and health consequences”. But under planned reforms of cannabis laws, police could be...

A debate on reforming cannabis laws dominated proceedings in the House of Assembly. Premier Michael Dunkley launched an eight-hour discussion by stating: “The debate is one that joins Bermuda with many other countries who have wrestled with the issue...

Warwick Academy is preparing to introduce a new “Reception Year” for students as young as four years old. Principal Maggie McCorkell said the initiative is hoped to be up and running by September 2015, and will offer youngsters a sound foundation for...

Reform of Bermuda’s laws on cannabis will today be debated in the House of Assembly. Government Whip Cole Simons said: “I think it will be a long debate because it’s a topical issue and, as we look at other jurisdictions, they are certainly examining...

Much-loved educator Lorraine Fubler, who taught generations of Bermudian schoolchildren to read, has died at the age of 98. Ms Fubler’s more than 40 years of teaching began at Central School, now Victor Scott Primary, where she trained before moving ...

Pupils at CedarBridge Academy will today stage a special tribute to US writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died yesterday aged 86. The tribute to Dr Angelou, who died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had ta...

A 16 year old girl was charged this morning with assaulting two teachers at Berkeley Institute. Taree Wade, of Fentons Drive, Pembroke, pleaded not guilty to unlawfully assaulting and causing bodily harm to Eva Showers and Mary Burgess on May 1. Acco...

Bermuda lobbying won Island residents the right to travel visa-free in 26 European countries, a PLP Shadow Minister has claimed. MP Walton Brown said the UK had attempted to take credit for Bermuda winning visa-free access to the Schengen area of the...

The Island’s new Minister of Health, Seniors and the Environment, Jeanne Atherden, was sworn in at a ceremony at Government House yesterday. Mrs Atherden, who said her experience on the Bermuda Health Council gives her “a unique perspective”, replace...

A Bermudian student has been picked to attend a major conference on international relations and diplomacy in China. Danielle Lightbourn was picked from entries from the US and around the world after she shone at the Global Young Leaders Conference, h...