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A woman accused of storing two guns and almost 500 rounds of ammunition told a judge yesterday she had no knowledge of the weapons. Tonae Perinchief-Leader, 31, told the Supreme Court that she had told police she owned one of the two suitcases that c...

A group set up to fight the closure of West End Primary School has claimed it was snubbed by the Government. The West End Warriors for Legacy said presented a petition with 315 signatures against the plan to shut the school as part of an education s...

A public consultation process on single-use plastics in a bid to abolish the product by next year is to be launched, the Government announced today. Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, said that the Government had pledged in 2018 to rid the isla...

Young people on the Future Leaders programme have backed the scheme as this year’s group was inducted. Siniah Lambe, one of the group and from CedarBridge Academy, said: “Unlike school, Future Leaders Bermuda allows you to be way more open about how ...

Community organisations yesterday joined forces to raise cash to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The Bermuda Red Cross, the Salvation Army, community group Imagine Bermuda and Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda teamed up to encourage the public to h...

Firecrews tackled a brushfire at a house in Smith’s last night. The flames destroyed an area of grass and several bushes in the grounds of a house in Harrington Sound Road. Dylan Rance, 16, who lives at the house with his mother, said he was in his r...

Changes to labour legislation that caused a breach with a union benefited workers, the Government claimed yesterday. Jason Hayward, the labour minister and a former trade union leader, said changes to the way staff could vote on union decertification...

Business leaders yesterday condemned the threat of a strike over changes to votes on union decertification in workplaces. Nathan Kowalski, the president of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, said it was “not the time to introduce increased friction in ...

A single mother yesterday said she was “shocked and disappointed” after she found that her child could not be enrolled in a new Government-run preschool programme because of a policy change. The mother said she applied in June for a place on the Brig...

Prosecutors yesterday alleged that two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in a woman’s bedroom. Alan Richards, for the Crown, told the Supreme Court that the weapons and ammunition were found after police carried out a search of a h...