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Bermuda?s record for rehabilitating criminal offenders is a ?colossal joke?, Bermuda Prison Fellowship chairman Jack Harris declared yesterday. Addressing the weekly meeting of Hamilton Rotarians at the Mariners Club yesterday, Mr. Harris, who has de...

Legislation abolishing death tax on the primary family homestead was one of three short bills tabled in the House of Assembly at the end of the Monday night session. The Stamp Duties Amendment Act 2005 will be debated this week along with two sets of...

The heated construction market and the lack of an available contractor are behind the continuing delays to the renovation of the Premier's new official residence of Clifton in Devonshire. Premier Alex Scott confirmed early last year the sprawling pro...

The controversial lease agreement awarded to businessman John Jefferis for the former Stonington Beach Hotel in 2003 was not ?a sweetheart deal? but a sensible business decision which is now paying handsome dividends, Premier Alex Scott has argued. H...

Community Affairs and Sports Minister Dale Butler said the relationship between quangos and Government was a difficult one as Ministers were supposed to be accountable yet not get deeply involved. ?I am at arm?s length and not supposed to micromanage...

Furious Magistrate Edward King stormed out of the lower court yesterday morning during a verbal confrontation with Crown counsel Juan Wolffe over the prosecutor?s line of questioning of a witness in the Melanie Wedgwood trial. Wedgwood, 43, is charge...

Trimingham Brothers Ltd. ? Bermuda?s oldest and best-known department store ? will close its doors at the end of July with the loss of about 220 jobs. The news follows several weeks of speculation that the store could either be sold or closed but wil...

Parliamentary Registrar Sabrina Phillips is to retire in May but said she had absolutely loved her three years in the post which saw Bermuda move to single seat constituencies. Ms Phillips, who is in her early 40s, said she intends to travel and then...

One manager with decades of service said Trimingham?s had struggled against the odds. ?We were all working so hard to try to make everything work, to come up with promotion ideas and give customers what they wanted, making it better and prettier. ?Bu...

Government is to update its water treatment facilities in a bid to keep up with demand. Works & Engineering Minster Ashfield DeVent made the announcement in the House of Assembly on Monday. Mr. DeVent said that the Tudor Hill facility will be running...