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A union call for a two-day work stoppage next week was struck a blow yesterday after a sister union said it would not support the action. The blue collar Bermuda Industrial Union announced the strike – due to start next Monday – last weekend and app...

A brother and sister from the US said yesterday they had to “jump through hoops” to come to Bermuda on the cruise ship Crystal Symphony – but that it was worth it in the end. Dill and Patrice Worcester, from Florida, were among about 180 passengers ...

Proposals for massive five-figure fines and up to two years behind bars for people caught with illegal plants and animals have been slammed as excessive. One user wrote on Government forums: “Whilst a fine is plausible, the amount is unjust. Also imp...

Bermuda’s other national drink has been given a major boost from Formula 1 superstar Sir Lewis Hamilton. For the winning formula of Barritt’s Ginger Beer has tantalised Sir Lewis’s taste buds and given the brand international exposure after a social ...

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...