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A total of $11 million has been committed to new buses – but the size of the fleet is to shrink from 88 vehicles to 70. The news of the more than 20 per cent cut came as Lawrence Scott the transport minister, said the first of 30 electric buses, wort...

Former Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews died yesterday after a decade-long battle with cancer. Ms Jacobs Matthews, who was 69, served from 2009 to 2016 and was responsible for the island’s financial reporting through the turbulence of the Grea...

People who went to two nightspots last week should get an urgent test for the coronavirus, a health official warned last night. The health ministry spokeswoman said customers at Legends Bar, on Somerset Road, Sandys between March 6 and March 12 may ...

Police broke up a birthday party that breached Covid-19 regulations on Sunday night. A police spokesman said the organiser, a 40-year-old woman, was reported for prosecution. The venue, said to be a guest house in the East End, was not identified. A ...

Bermuda’s travel health status was today upgraded for the second time this month by the US Centres for Disease Control. A spokeswoman for the US Consulate said the island was moved from Level 3 to Level 2 - “Covid-19 moderate“. Bermuda’s status was s...

Court reports were ordered on a man who admitted growing eight cannabis plants at his home in Devonshire. Kiwadme Roberts, 40, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a single count of cultivating cannabis in an increased penalty zone. The court hear...

Two veterans of the civil service who died this month were yesterday honoured by the Bermuda Public Services Union. Joseph Christopher, 77, was a former Commissioner of Education and education historian, and Kenneth Richardson, a former Cabinet Secre...

A proposed fish processing plant could help open up an international market, a veteran fisherman said yesterday. Alan Card added that the $1.07 million East End project designed to give Bermuda’s fishing industry a boost and help fishermen sell their...

Thousands of homes across the island were hit by a power cut last night. But a spokesman for Belco said that electricity restored to all its affected customers by about 10pm. Wayne Caines, the firm’s president, apologised for the “unexpected” outage...

A beach at Admiralty Park will be closed for more than a month for repairs to a hurricane-damaged wall. A spokesman for the Department of Parks said construction work started yesterday and beach access would be prohibited until work finished at the e...