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Police today warned that checks on licensed premises to ensure compliance with Covid-19 rules would continue after a clampdown was launched last week. Assistant Commissioner of Police Martin Weekes said: “The BPS will continue to carry out checks ove...

The Bermuda College will host a virtual conference on Saturday aimed at helping educators to better teach reading, especially to primary school students. The conference, entitled “Reading Success for Every Child: Teaching Reading is Rocket Science”,...

Children and staff at a total of three schools and a nursery have been told to quarantine out of an “abundance of caution” over the coronavirus, the Government said last night. Primary two pupils and some teachers at St George’s Preparatory School w...

A pair of defendants were sent to Supreme Court after they were accused of a conspiracy to smuggle $173,000 worth of drugs into Bermuda. Tyrone Burchall, 48, and Angela Simmons, 55, were charged in Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday with two counts of...

A man jailed for three years for a string of sex offences against a schoolgirl has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Kenneth Williams was found guilty of offences against a child under the age of 14 last year. But lawyers asked for t...

The MarketPlace Christmas parade is to go ahead this year – but with changes to protect against Covid-19. Seth Stutzman, the president of The MarketPlace Group, said the company was determined that the parade would be held. He added: “The MarketPlac...

A conservationist said he aimed to combat the Atlantic invasion of lionfish with an extension of his fishing tournament to the Caribbean. Weldon Wade, the founder of ocean conservation organisation Guardians of the Reef, added he already had a Jamaic...

Two schoolgirls who started an online service to connect volunteers with charities won a total of $6,000 in a competition for young entrepreneurs. Moya van Niekerk and Loré de Kock, both Bermuda High School pupils, wowed the judges of the Youth Pitch...

New treatment courts are planned to help keep people out of prison and instead treat their problems, the island’s senior magistrate has revealed. Juan Wolffe said that discussions to develop juvenile mental health, family health and sex offenders’ tr...

A 74-year-old driver accused of injuring a cycling magistrate has given evidence in his Magistrates’ Court trial. Brian Alkon, a real estate agent from St George’s, is charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Craig Attridge by driving a vehicle w...