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A review of pension arrangements by the Bermuda Government could adversely affect employees’ eventual windfalls, according to statistician Cordell Riley. Speaking after the Throne Speech, Mr Riley claimed that “what has not been said is more importan...

The protection of children, seniors and the sick were all prominent features of a Throne Speech that promised to look after Bermuda’s most vulnerable people yesterday. Penalties for predatory sexual crimes against children will be toughened up, legis...

Five good causes are sharing more than $68,000 as part of the Cash Back for Communities initiative. The charities and organisations were chosen thanks to their “tremendous track records of success with their target populations”. The money comes from...

Ethical issues that arise over long-term care are being discussed by medical staff as part of Ethics Awareness Week. Expert Christy Simpson, the head of the bioethics department at Dalhousie University, is working with staff from King Edward VII Memo...

On this date in 1978, the British Government intended to push Bermuda towards independence, according to recently declassified documents. A cable sent from the London Embassy to the US Secretary of State and US Consulate, dated October 30, 1978, deta...

Malaysian artist Kok Wan Lee is hosting his debut photography exhibition for charity. All of the show’s proceeds will be donated to the Sunshine League which supports and assists young people. The exhibition, Dialogue to Nature, features images, mos...

A drive to buy a high-tech, motorised wheelchair for a shooting victim left paralysed has been launched. Friends of Ralph Burrows, who was paralysed from the chest down after being mistaken for someone else and shot, decided to launch an appeal to ra...

Bermuda’s “secretive” system of government will be cracked open when the first major disclosures under Pati are made, according to the Island’s first information commissioner. Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Island’s Westminster system was traditionally...

Police welcomed the conviction of Jaquii Pearman Desilva last night after he was found guilty of the cold-blooded murder of gang member and self-confessed drug dealer Prince Edness. Mr Edness, 29, was gunned down outside a Southampton property on Dec...

Chyone Harris fell 25 feet from a balcony on to a pile of rocks and his chances of walking again looked slim. The 22-year-old aspiring dancer broke his spine and his neck in two places in the accident last April, and doctors were initially unsure whe...