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The Government has launched a lawsuit to recover almost $800,000 of public money it loaned to an entertainment company to create a recording studio at Dockyard, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Papers were filed in the Supreme Court against Anthony Blak...

Cup Match will be held in St George’s this year, but seniors will gate a taste of the event in Somerset days before the first over. The third annual Tee’l Pre-Cup Match and Emancipation Day tea for seniors will be held at Somerset Cricket Club on Jul...

Work to remove an asbestos-riddled roof at a former preschool was halted yesterday, amid confusion over neighbourhood notification that the work was to take place. Staff downed tools at the site in St David’s because it was claimed residents and a ne...

Legislation designed to set up a commission to examine the creation of a minimum wage is to be debated in the House of Assembly today. The Employment (Wage Commission) Act 2019 is among six Bills expected to be discussed in what was predicted to be a...

Two Bulgarian men denied charges relating to bank-card fraud in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Vladimir Vasilev, 31, pleaded not guilty to having a machine designed to make false credit cards for the purpose of stealing money. Nikola Aleksandrov, 40, ...

Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, highlighted the winners of government scholarships this morning in the House of Assembly. There were almost 50 awards made in a variety of areas of study. Among the winners were Taj Donville-Outerbridge, Ryan...

An affordable housing development failed because campaigners wanted to keep black people off the South Shore of the island, the public works minister claimed yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said the Grand Atlantic scheme was a victim of “sa...

Two schoolgirls have inspired an environmental charity to form a youth council. Eugene Dean, the chairman of Greenrock, said environmental work by Katarina Rance and Salayah Stange had prompted the move. The 15-year-old schoolgirls organised two sch...

A two-hour information session was held for senators two days before they were asked to consider wide-ranging legislation to enhance the protection of children against sexual abuse. They were invited to the briefing ahead of an “unusual” move in the ...

A driver was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined after he admitted crashing his car after he had been drinking. Jamari Samuels, who refused a breath test after his car was involved in a collision with a motorbike, admitted a drink-driving c...