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Controversial changes to Special Development Orders are expected to be debated today in the House of Assembly. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs has said the Development and Planning Amendment Act 2021 is intended to streamline the SDO proce...

Online registration to volunteer at the upcoming Bermuda Championship has now opened. The Bermuda BF&M Volunteer Programme hopes to enlist more than 500 volunteers to serve on 17 committees for the golf tournament. Sean Sovacool, the executive direct...

The City of Hamilton is to almost double its original budget to fund extra police on the beat. The Extra Duty Police Officer Programme launched in October 2020 with a commitment of $57,000 will now be boosted by a further $54,000 enabling continued h...

The island’s top judge will rule whether an online cartoon shared by a police officer shortly before the island’s Black Lives Matter march last year qualifies as freedom of expression – or could get her charged with a “grossly offensive” social media...

An opponent of mandatory quarantine was allowed to quarantine at home with a monitoring bracelet yesterday after the Government said he fell into an exempted category. But Antonio Belvedere claimed on social media that he did not pay for or complete ...

A man who was remanded in custody for contempt of court for cursing was released yesterday after his lawyer argued that he was unlawfully detained. Elizabeth Christopher, for the defence, told Magistrates’ Court that her client, Michael Simons, 25, s...

The doctor running Government’s Covid-19 testing facility has provided details of how vaccinations can dramatically reduce the spread of the disease. Carika Weldon, who heads the department of health’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, also explained...

Government has consistently fallen short on addressing long-term care for seniors, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda charged this week. Claudette Fleming spoke after the continued shortage of hospital beds at King Edward VII Memorial Hosp...

Efforts to secure the refurbishment of the island’s largest hotel, closed since last October, remain in the pipeline according to David Burt, the Premier. Mr Burt closed this week’s Covid-19 press conference by thanking the Fairmont Southampton resor...

Details of this year’s signature Emancipation Celebration event focusing on Bermuda’s cultural ties to Africa were shared in the Senate yesterday. Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, said ‘The Resilience of the African Spirit’ the...