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Senators rubber-stamped a number of Government bills during a brisk, virtual session of the Upper House yesterday morning. Streamlining and improved efficiency were the themes of three Acts that were given their second and third readings before being...

Eighteen people have tested positive for Covid-19, out of 1,208 results since the Government’s last update, it was revealed tonight. Two of the new cases were imported, from travellers who tested positive on arrival. Both came on Delta flights from A...

Buses are to resume daily service tomorrow, according to the Department of Public Transportation. It followed the suspension of service on Friday after an employee in the DPT tested positive for the coronavirus. The announcement today came after an a...

The Water Safety Council has called for mandatory competence tests for boaters. And the Road Safety Council wants to see the same regulations that govern auxiliary cycles applied to electric pedal cycles, saying riders can reach speeds of 50kph and ...

The Minister of National Security said today she was “disturbed” by threats to neighbourhood safety after an East End incident that involved a gun. Renee Ming spoke after events in St George’s, which included a reported home invasion and two vehicle ...

Younger pupils at Somersfield Academy switched to remote learning today after a possible exposure at the school to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. They joined secondary students who moved to virtual classes at the beginning of this w...

An insurance company has closed its doors to walk-in customers after two staff members tested positive for the coronavirus. CG Insurance’s Reid Street office will be shut until December 29. A spokeswoman said: “It has come to our attention that two C...

A crew member from a British Airways flight was among 11 new cases of Covid-19 reported last night by the Ministry of Health. The BA crew member was one of three cases that came in from overseas. The other two were residents, one of whom arrived on ...

Firefighters yesterday battled a third vehicle fire in two days – two of them in the same St George’s neighbourhood. Crews responded to reports of a car explosion on Pain Lane, St George’s just before 4.30am. Residents in a nearby apartment were at ...

Two children’s advocates have condemned a suspended sentence handed down in the Supreme Court to a man who admitted accessing thousands of items of child pornography. Wong Li Shan, 43, was spared prison last week with a ten-month suspended sentence a...