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A 25 per cent rise in family cases in the courts and a 30 per cent spike in domestic abuse protection orders over the last year were probably sparked by the Covid pandemic, MPs have been told. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, said there had ...

The scientist at the forefront of the island’s fight against coronavirus has appealed to the public to take health precautions seriously after she completed almost a full year of work without a day off. Carika Weldon, a geneticist and head of the Mol...

Budget cuts mean that the public works ministry will not be able to do as much routine maintenance as it used to, it was admitted yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said that the ministry budget had been cut by $3.75 million because of the eco...

Campaigners against the new Covid-19 clampdown are to organise a protest, it was revealed yesterday. The organisers claimed that new restrictions were imposed by the Government in a bid to control the public. A WhatsApp message appealed to supporte...

The last surviving child of a family of more than 20 children celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday. Dorothy Pearman hit the milestone at the Sylvia Richards care home in St George’s, where she celebrated with her six children and three sons-in-law...

A construction worker at the St Regis resort site in St George’s was taken to hospital this morning after a crane toppled over. Laura Purroy, general manager of Hotelco Bermuda Holding Ltd, said the “minor accident” was the first in three years of co...

Art can help to tell the story of the Holocaust – and help make sure such a horror never happens again, an art collector said this week. Gilad Hayeem, who supplied many of the exhibits for the Shoah exhibition at the Bermuda Society of Arts Gallery f...

Cruise companies have expressed interest in the ’homeporting’ of ships in Bermuda, the transport minister Lawrence Scott told the House of Assembly yesterday. The minister said that there had been interest from a “small luxury line” drawn by the isla...

Customs duty breaks for some businesses have been approved in the House of Assembly. Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said the Customs Tariff Amendment Act 2021 would allow the minister to give zero or cut rates of duty for businesses ruled to...

A cancer specialist is to deliver a free online talk on the environment and cancer this week. Chris Fosker, a cancer specialist, will give the presentation and take questions from the public on Thursday. Dr Fosker will review ways the natural environ...