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The island’s water production plants cannot meet current demand, MPs were told on Friday. David Burch, the public works minister, said water access was being restricted because rainfall was 34 per cent lower than the average for May and June. Just 6...

A former chairman of the Progressive Labour Party who resigned his post after demanding that his company should be first in line for Government contracts has been awarded a $3.2 million contract by a Government quango. Damon Wade’s company, Atlantic ...

A “safe space” at the heart of Hamilton has been dedicated to commemorate the landmark Theatre Boycott of 1959. The new Freedom Square was also unveiled yesterday in tribute to other key moments where Hamilton hosted the island’s push for social just...

Travellers recently returning to the island were mistakenly sent home to quarantine, the government has admitted. A Ministry of Health spokeswoman said last night the 17 travellers did not fall within categories exempted from mandatory hotel quaranti...

Cricket match organisers will only have to adhere to Covid-19 SafeKey requirements if there are more than 275 people at a match at any one time, the Sports Minister confirmed yesterday. The decision to lift the SafeKey requirement from 51 to 275 cam...

Government overpaid $3.5 million in unemployment benefits during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the finance minister admitted yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said about 2,500 people – or one in four of those who received the benefit – were overpaid an average ...

Government has earned almost $5.5 million in fees generated from controversial travel authorisation forms, it has been revealed. But it has also paid out more than $500,000 to the company that created the software to create the TAFs and to manage the...

The US State Department today announced that Karen Grissette has been appointed as the next US Consul to Bermuda. A career Foreign Service Officer of more than 20 years, Ms Grissette recently served as the Executive Director of the Fulbright Foreign ...

Elsa, the first hurricane of the season, has formed in the Atlantic with its forecast path set to take it through the Caribbean this weekend, potentially looming over Florida by Tuesday. At 6am, Elsa was 131 miles to the east of the Dominican Republi...

An Australian cryptocurrency mogul living in Bermuda is facing extradition to the US to face money laundering charges. Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that Gregory Dwyer, a senior employee for the cryptocurrency derivative exchange platform BitMEX...