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Bermuda welcomed its first scheduled commercial flight for more than three months yesterday. Karla Aitken collected her daughter, Ashley, 23, who had at last managed to return from college in Denmark — but the joy of homecoming was marred by sadness ...

A teenager denied theft and trespassing charges yesterday. Aurelien Corona-Valett, 18, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the theft of Adderall prescription pills and three bottles of alcohol after he trespassed at a Pembroke home. He also p...

Legislation to give businesses more time before they have to make laid-off staff redundant will be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Employment Amendment Act 2020 will maintain the requirement for employees laid off for more than four month...

A woman appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of a blackmail demand for $75,000 from a father and daughter. Lu Zhao, 35, was charged with making an “unwarranted demand with menaces” to the man between May 19 and June 12. She was also charg...

About 4,500 people who were on emergency unemployment benefits have returned to work, the Minister of Finance said last night. Curtis Dickinson said that the scheme has put about $43 million in the hands of 10,100 unemployed people since it started, ...

The Premier dismissed “malicious messages” on social media last night that criticised the island’s Covid-19 test laboratories. David Burt defended the abilities of Carika Weldon, a Bermudian biochemist and researcher at the Oxford Genomics Centre, pa...

A man appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday in connection with a motorcycle collision that killed another man. Ishmael Lightbourne, 40, was charged with causing the death of Shannon-Hugh Davis, 39, by driving with a dangerous drug in his system. T...

A man who had been charged with attempted murder claimed it was unconstitutional for a Crown prosecutor to bypass ten potential jurors — all of whom appeared to be black people. Jahmico Trott, in a civil action launched in the Supreme Court, claimed ...

Two men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged in connection with a crash at a Royal Bermuda Regiment checkpoint that injured two soldiers, one seriously. Makhail Saltus, 26, was charged with dangerous driving and causing grievous bodily ha...

Renewed calls to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers in Bermuda have been made after the company that owns the Roundup brand said it would pay almost $11 billion to settle cancer claims linked to the product. Campaigners said alternative ways to control...