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Plans to switch healthcare coverage under the Bermuda Health Plan will go before the public in town hall meetings set for next month, according to Kim Wilson, the health minister. In a statement, Ms Wilson said the reforms would boost health coverage...

People out on the water at the weekend were today warned to avoid the course for the Around the Island powerboat race. Police said that swimmers and divers should keep out of the racecourse for the event, which is scheduled to start at 2pm on Sunday....

A team of school-age business people has highlighted its skills at a presentation on their virtual enterprise. The Berkeley Institute pupils demonstrated how their Bermuda-branded goods firm Leisure in the Triangle had developed in the past year at t...

Massive increases of up to $880 in six-month land tax bills have left seniors worried over how they will make ends meet. Seniors were shocked when they got their invoices which were much higher than six months ago. One homeowner told The Royal Gazett...

Free clinics to help people understand planning applications will be held every three months, the Minister of Home Affairs announced. Walter Roban said the clinics would mean the public can get advice on planning regulations outside normal office hou...

Families affected by delays in payment of war veterans’ benefits will have their problems tackled “as a matter of urgency”, the Minister of Finance pledged last night. Curtis Dickinson said officials from the Department of Social Insurance would meet...

Proposed reforms to health benefits should not be examined to a tight deadline, an insurance industry leader warned. Peter Lozier, the executive vice-president of group insurance at Argus Group, said that “health reform of this magnitude and complexi...

A Bermudian film-maker is returning to the festival circuit soon with a new short film, supported by the Bermuda Arts Council. Rory Wilson wrote, directed, produced and acted in the short film Drop, which he has now submitted to film festivals around...

Nobel Prize-winning author and academic Toni Morrison was a “mesmerising” speaker 30 years after she visited the island to help mark the 150th anniversary of the Bermuda National Library. Ruth Thomas, a former government cultural affairs officer, sai...

One in three patients at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is diabetic, research from the Bermuda Hospitals Board has revealed. Now the hospital has stepped up its efforts caring for patients with the disease and launched an education programme to en...