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Boats and wellwishers turned out yesterday to greet a new cargo ship designed to improve the shipping service to Bermuda. The MV Oleander, a custom-built container ship, arrived in Hamilton Harbour from its builders in China with her horn blowing. Ne...

Luminaries from the heydays of Bermuda’s home-grown music scene get a salute this weekend from Dale Butler, a former minister and champion of local artists. The tribute tomorrow at the Leopards Club on Cedar Avenue, Hamilton, coincides with the club’...

A children’s rights campaigner said yesterday she hoped the Court of Appeal would enforce the right of vulnerable youngsters involved in legal proceedings to have independent representation. Child charities took their case to the highest court in Ber...

The City of Hamilton’s mayor last night signalled a legal battle will be launched to fight a government plan to turn the city into a quango. Charles Gosling revealed that preparations were being made for a writ and he would “talk tactics” with lawyer...

The father of former Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean has died. Allan Bean Sr, a farmer who campaigned for living off the land, was 83. His son, Allan Bean Jr, a top commercial fishermen, said his father’s example had taught him how to “live...

The widow of a computing tycoon and philanthropist has launched legal action against the Minister of National Security over her husband’s private island. Lawyers for Lillian Martin, an American, have filed a motion at the Supreme Court to ask for a d...

Friends of a mother of four bedridden by a degenerative disease have launched a fundraising appeal for her to get emergency surgery overseas. Lisa Pacheco, who had multiple sclerosis diagnosed six years ago after a stroke, must head to the Lahey Clin...

A cache of child pornography was unlikely to have been planted on the laptop of a man accused of accessing the material, a computer forensics expert told the Supreme Court yesterday. David Graham, a US expert, told prosecutor Larry Mussenden that a r...

The last resting place of a US World War Two bomber that crashed into the sea moments after take-off from Bermuda has been found by a research team. The B-24 plummeted into Castle Harbour moments after it took off from the airport, then Kindley Field...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers issued the following statement on Standards-Based Grading: We, as a body of professional educators, are not opposed to Standards-Based Education/Grading and feel that it has the potential to be a very positive way forwar...