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A six-month ban on work permits for an expanded range of job categories was an expected move from the Government, the Bermuda Employers’ Council said yesterday. Keith Jensen, the president of the BEC, said that the group was “not surprised, in the cu...

A Speech from the Throne sounds impressive — it is meant to be — and far less ceremonial than the ceremony in which it is wrapped. It is the centrepiece of a longstanding parliamentary tradition that marks the opening of a new legislative session; ...

A man will be sentenced next month after he admitted the theft of a bicycle from a restaurant storage room. Jason Liburd, 50, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to trespassing on to Port-O-Call in Hamilton and the theft of a $300 bicycle. The court...

The deadline for public consultation on the introduction of controversial 5G technology will not be extended, it was announced yesterday. The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda confirmed that the November 23 deadline will remain, despite appeals from c...

A sculpture to honour one of Bermuda’s musical giants has been given place of pride outside the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. The Talbot Brothers were international calypso stars in the late 1940s and 1950s, and a popular act through to the 1970...

A lawyer asked the Court of Appeal yesterday to allow a lawsuit against the Department of Child and Family Services to go ahead after it was struck out by an Acting Assistant Justice who had not been sworn in. Simone Smith Bean told the Court of Appe...

The Remembrance Day holiday next week will push government’s garbage collection schedule back a day, the Ministry of Public Works announced tonight. A ministry spokesman explained that garbage will not be collected on the holiday, which falls next We...

The island now has 21 active cases of Covid-19, it was revealed tonight. None are in hospital or under investigation. But Kim Wilson, the health minister, said two students and the parents of one student have been “recently identified as contacts of ...

Former MP Rolfe Commissiong today branded the release of his resignation letter by David Burt, the Premier, as “unethical” and insisted he did not write it and only signed it under “extreme duress”. Mr Commissiong, who was unveiled as the Governmen...

The Leader of the Opposition announced a “new and robust Senate team” for the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday. Cole Simons said Ben Smith will be the Opposition Leader in the Senate, and Shadow Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Community Affair...