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A supermarket cashier who reunited an elderly woman with hundreds of dollars she dropped in the store on New Year’s Eve got a surprise thank you yesterday from a customer who saw her good deed. Elvina Moniz, a 12-year veteran of the MarketPlace on Ch...

Staff shortages have forced bus services to run on an “enhanced Sunday schedule” from Monday, the Department of Public Transportation said yesterday. A spokeswoman said: “The DPT apologises for the inconvenience caused by the temporary service and is...

A mother who lost her son in a crash said she was moved to see members of the public cover the island in blue yesterday in memory of him and others who have died on the roads. Antoinette Burgess said that she had “never dreamt” of seeing the blue clo...

A woman who appealed to the public for help to pay for overseas medical treatment said she was over the moon after she exceeded her £6,500 goal – $7,787 – in only a week. Mickia Brangman raised £6,875 through a GoFundMe page to help her enrol in a s...

Online enrolment for parents to register their children for the next school year has opened, the education ministry announced yesterday. Registration options through the new PowerSchool online enrolment were released for preschool, primary school and...

A Merchant Navy Officer Cadet at college in the UK is destined for a life on the ocean waves after he secured a job as a junior officer with a billion-dollar plus shipping company. Marcus Simmons, from Warwick, was offered the trainee role with UK-ba...

Police are to set up roadside breath test checkpoints across the island next weekend. A notice in the Official Gazette said checkpoints would be in operation on January 21, 22 and 23 in seven of the island’s nine parishes, with only St George’s and ...

A cable ship was spotted steaming towards the island yesterday on her way to refuel and change its crew. Peter Faber, a cable layer owned by Optic Marine, also known as the OMS group, sailed from the United States and berthed in Dockyard at about...

A man was fined $900 yesterday after he admitted being in charge of a boat while impaired. Mark Riihiluoma, 50, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the offence, which happened on October 29 last year near Darrell’s Wharf in Warwick. The amount of...

Quarantine periods are to be cut from next week, the health minister revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson added that schoolchildren would also switch from PCR tests to the antigen type. Ms Wilson insisted that the changes to quarantine requirements would h...