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A teacher in Bermuda who had consensual sex with a pupil would not commit the offence of “sexual exploitation by a person in a position of trust or authority” if the child is aged 16 or over — unlike in Britain. It has been an offence there since 200...

A US couple yesterday appeared in Magistrates’ Court today after cannabis was discovered in their cruise ship cabin. Maria Derenzin, from Passaic, and Ibn Muhammad, from Newark, both New Jersey, admitted importation of the drug into the island on the...

A “fire of change” could be sparked in the way people make dietary choices with greater access to fresh fruit and vegetables, the Bermuda Health Council said today. The organisation has collected feedback from hundreds of residents who passed locatio...

A woman groomed by her teacher for sex while she was a teenage schoolgirl has called for a change to the law to protect 16 and 17-year-old girls from predators. Christine DaCosta, 38, said adults who worked with children could target girls by groomin...

Hotel owners were urged to use their resources to help make Bermuda a year-round destination at the Bermuda Hotel Association’s Annual General Meeting. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works and Acting Minister of Tourism and Tr...

Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) and Bermuda College have kicked off a new season of exciting topics for their Eco Lunch & Learn Series II. The series runs on the last Thursday of each month for September, October and November 20...

Communal areas of an East End housing complex slammed for unsanitary conditions are regularly cleaned, a government representative said yesterday. The spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that the Bermuda Housing Corporation employed prof...

A child protection agency warned employers to rely on police records for background checks after a sex offender obtained a court letter that wrongly claimed he had no criminal convictions. Malik Zuill, 22, was sentenced to five months in jail in July...

A former employee at a cleaning firm that closed this month said that she and other employees were still owed back wages. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she and “more than 30” other former workers at Just Cleaners Ltd were still due mone...

The number of complaints about alleged immigration breaches since January has already surpassed the total for 2018. Compliance officers have received 128 reports so far in 2019, compared with 126 overall in the previous year. The total for 2017 was 1...