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A civil rights champion and teacher was remembered yesterday for carrying on a family legacy of fighting for social justice as a leading member of the Progressive Group. Marva Phillips taught at primary schools and at what is now Sandys Secondary Mi...

The finance minister yesterday insisted that price controls were unlikely to be introduced to combat inflation. Curtis Dickinson said that the Covid pandemic would continue to hit the economy, but that he did not expect next year’s Budget to be a “ha...

The Government has extended its back to school Covid-19 test schedule for teachers by two days. The move came after the Bermuda Union of Teachers yesterday told its members not to use the Christmas break to get tested or to complete any work-related...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance is calling on anyone who sees intoxicated friends attempting to drive home after a night out to stop them. Susan Jackson, the shadow transport minister, made the appeal in the run-up to Christmas — a time when “li...

A car parking area at the National Sports Centre will be used to generate power. A planning department file said the planned “carport” solar array would be installed over a car parking area at the stadium. There would be 1,498 solar panels, each capa...

A book club set up to help to boost the confidence of girls in the Big Brothers Big Sisters programme is to launch in the new year. The first book to be featured in the Girl Power Book Club is Assemble the Tribe: Believe in Your Value. Find Belongin...

Roadworks in Smith’s have been halted for the holiday period The news means that a section of Harrington Sound Road will be closed to traffic. The Ministry of Public Works said in a notice published in the Official Gazette yesterday that work bet...

Two charities have been given a holiday boost from the International Women’s Club. The IWC donated $9,000 to the Women’s Resource Centre to support its Transformational Living Centre’s education and life skills programme. The soon-to-be-opened TLC o...

Seniors were yesterday given hundreds of hampers to help them have a happy Christmas. The Salvation Army handed out non-perishable Christmas foods, as well as toys for people with grandchildren who live with them. The event came after the charity dis...

A man with a 21-page list of previous convictions was sent to the Drug Treatment Court yesterday after he admitted stealing more than $3,000 worth of clothes and jewellery. Magistrates’ Court heard that Coolridge Eve, 63, broke into Gibbons Company i...