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The Mayor of Hamilton, Charles Gosling, said yesterday that he will not run for re-election. The announcement comes as the corporation is locked in a legal battle with the Government for its survival. Mr Gosling, 68, told The Royal Gazette: “Sometime...

The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Bermuda has been confirmed, it was revealed yesterday. Health officials said much remained unknown about the new strain but that the symptoms appeared to be mild, with effects such as fatigu...

More than 50 homeless people live rough on the streets – including some who have college educations and hold down jobs, a new charity has said. Now the group – home – has launched a fundraising campaign to help get the island’s homeless into shelter ...

A 54-year-old man turned to drugs after a string of family tragedies, including the death of his son, a court heard. Andre Simmons’s father died in 2015 and his son, Royal Bermuda Regiment Sergeant Dejion Stange-Simmons, was murdered soon afterwards,...

Bermuda can now identify new variants of the Covid-19 virus thanks to new technology. Carika Weldon, the director of the Bermuda Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, said that nanopore sequencing meant the laboratory was able to conduct vira...

Aaron Williams could only imagine what it must be like to be homeless and sleep rough every night. But in the few months since he became a case manager for the charity home, his eyes have been “well and truly opened” to the hardships that the homeles...

A man who seriously injured a mother and her son in a 2018 crash has been banned from the road for two years after a decision by the Court of Appeal. Dwayne Creary was initially banned from driving for five years in Magistrates’ Court after he was fo...

Any top level parliamentary inquiry into how Bermuda has coped with the Covid-19 crisis must be non-party political, the Opposition has insisted. The comments come in the wake of David Burt, the Premier, saying a committee of lawmakers would be best ...

A family has donated $5,000 to support an early intervention programme for public schoolchildren run by the Bermuda Education Network. Andrew Sooboodoo, the chief risk officer at Fortitude Re and a director of the Bermuda International Long Term Ins...

A landmark bandstand has a new coat of paint – with work completed two weeks ahead of schedule. A spokeswoman for the City of Hamilton said the work was the 132-year-old Victoria Park bandstand’s first major facelift since 2007. She added: “Work also...