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Firefighters and police were called to a boat fire in Warwick last night. A Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service spokesman said: “BFRS responded with one appliance from the Port Royal Station and a total of four firefighters. “Upon arrival, fire crews saw a...

The legal battle over marriage equality will be decided after a two-day virtual hearing which is due to start tomorrow in front of the Privy Council in London. A panel of five judges at Bermuda’s highest court of appeal will hear the Government’s arg...

Payment from the owners of the Fairmont Southampton to cover redundancy payments to staff by Government have been handed over, the finance minister confirmed today. Curtis Dickinson said the closure of the island’s biggest resort last October had cre...

The number of active Covid-19 cases has dropped by more than half, health officials said last night. The news came as one new case was recorded out 1,587 results received since last Friday. The number of active cases dropped from 26 to 12 after 15 pe...

An American author whose teenage years in Bermuda were marred by homophobia yesterday appealed to opponents of same-sex marriage to give in to progress. Kirkland Hamill, who married his same-sex partner two years ago in the United States, said: “Gay ...

Two Bermudians have put up funds to pay for an expensive legal battle to stop the outlawing of same-sex marriage on the island. The private citizens, neither gay, spoke to The Royal Gazette on condition of anonymity as the Privy Council in London pre...

Company managers should consider all the alternatives before staff were made redundant, a trade union said yesterday. The Bermuda Public Services Union said it feared that “unscrupulous employers” could target union members. Armell Thomas, the BPSU p...

Drivers banned from the roads for drink driving will be blocked from switching to electronic bikes under changes to the law. But Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, promised a “light touch” with no new legislation proposed, after fears in the e-b...

The City of Hamilton is to use non-slip paint on manhole covers that could be a safety hazard in wet weather. The corporation took action last week after a member of the public posted on a Facebook group that he had seen people slip on the diamond-p...

A group set up to make recommendations on minimum and living wages is expected to take into account workers who earn tips, the labour minister has said. Jason Hayward added that no employment sector will be left out of the commission’s deliberation. ...