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A plan to encourage more superyacht visits to the island could result in extra jobs for Bermudians, the Minister of Tourism and Transport said yesterday. Zane DeSilva said legislative changes proposed by the Government would boost the country’s inter...

A St George’s jewellers was burgled yesterday — the third time the premises have been hit in three months. Police said that two men broke in to the Vera P. Card store on Water Street, at about 3.45am and stole jewellery. The burglary is the latest in...

The family of a man shot dead in his own home by a police officer paid tribute to him at a church conference in Bermuda. Allison and Bertrum Jean, from St Lucia, spoke about the loss of their son, Botham, who was shot by an off-duty female officer in...

The Government’s refusal to release a financial report into a failed sports centre that cost taxpayers millions of dollars could end up in court. Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez told the Department of Public Lands and Buildings to disclo...

A $2 million plus weather radar system will be operation next week, the transport minister told MPs this morning. Zane DeSilva said the doppler radar system, on Cooper’s Island, had been completed on time and under budget. Mr DeSilva said a new syste...

The Bermuda Public Services Union has become the sole bargaining body for three more organisations. Jason Hayward, the president of the BPSU, said the Bermuda Airport Authority, the Pension Commission and Teen Services/Teen Haven would now come under...

Police have launched a hunt for a teenage boy last seen on Wednesday. Police said Brittonie Taylor, 15, was last seen around 8.10am in the Bakery Lane area of Pembroke. A spokesman said he is dark complexioned, 5”6’ tall, of slim build, about 130 pou...

The land valuation department has gone paperless, the public works minister said yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch told MPs that the department had been one of the first to become paperless and no longer had a physical filing system. He added...

A six-week paid summer employment programme has been launched to help curb gang violence, the Minister of National Security said today. Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly that 13 out of 15 at-risk young people who will take part had already comp...

A plague of rats could spread killer diseases, the Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of medicine warned yesterday. Michael Ashton said rats could transmit serious diseases to humans — and that some could be fatal. Dr Ashton explained: “Rats are known vec...