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A Supreme Court judge highlighted yesterday the continued failure by the Government to set up coronavirus-compliant courtrooms for criminal trials. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said she was keen to set trial dates for 19 cases. But she told Mark...

Contact tracing was under way last night for four new cases of Covid-19, the health ministry said. Three cases are known to have come in from overseas and the source of the fourth is under investigation. All four are in isolation. A ministry spokeswo...

An increase in stress and executive burnout because of the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked the development of a series of therapeutic services by a new consortium of medical specialists. Submerge, a programme introduced by Kindred, Solstice and Fountai...

Hamilton fixture the Hog Penny said goodbye yesterday to “the best server in Bermuda”, who has retired after a 41-year history with the bar. Phil Barnett, the president of the bar’s owner, Island Restaurant Group, said Joanna Wellman, then Easton, th...

Construction industry leaders are disappointed after an annual government grant set up to support training programmes was suspended because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Construction Association of Bermuda said it hoped talks with the Department of ...

On Friday afternoon, August 14th 2020, Minister of Home Affairs the Hon. Walter Roban JP, MP and Dr. Geoff Smith – environmental engineer for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – took the opportunity to visit some of the home ...

A lawyer told the Supreme Court that a colleague had not done his job when he advised a mentally ill man to plead guilty to an alleged street attack on a 70-year-old man on New Year’s Day. Charles Richardson said that Bruce Swan, who appeared for the...

Three young people won gift certificates after they took part in a competition to express their thoughts on emancipation. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Community Affairs and Sport, congratulated first place winner Harmony Seymour, runner-up Melissa ...

A troubled teenager was spared jail yesterday after a court heard he had experienced “a great deal of trauma and turmoil”. Zywonde Lema said he was “really remorseful” after he pleaded guilty to taking two motorcycles without consent and twice handli...

Successive failures of three out of four Belco power cables to the West End was the cause of electricity cuts that blacked out thousands of customers, the firm said yesterday. A spokesman for Belco explained that one line went out of commission last...