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Members of Parliament are scheduled to the House of Assembly today to continue the Budget debate. MPs are expected to focus on the Department of Regulatory Affairs and the Department of Transport. The House of Assembly will also tackle the Proceeds o...

A crane breakdown at Hamilton docks has meant some containers have been stuck on the cargo ship Somers Isles since Wednesday. Warren Jones, chief executive of Stevedoring Services, said the remaining containers would be unloaded today. The crane is o...

The heartbroken parents of a girl who died at the roadside after a hit-and-run last July pleaded yesterday for witnesses to break their silence. Jen-Naya Simmons, 19, suffered fatal injuries after a small silver-grey Suzuki passenger van hit her bike...

Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, promised Hamilton’s change from a municipality to a quango would helped aid the redevelopment of the city’s waterfront. Questioned by city residents at a public meeting last night, the minister maintained t...

A student at Whitney Institute Middle School injured two others with “equipment from an art class” in a “recent incident”, according to Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education. Ms Richards said yesterday: “Any incident such as this is taken ve...

A man who was driving with more than four times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday. Kyle Rogers, 36, was also fined $1,000 by senior magistrate Juan Wolffe. The court heard that police were direc...

Legislation imposing new fees on cruise ships was tabled in the House of Assembly. The Bermuda Tourism Authority Amendment Bill 2019 was brought by Zane DeSilva, the tourism minister. Travellers leaving the island by passenger vessel will be charged ...

An elderly man was injured in a crash on North Shore Road yesterday. The victim was in a car which collided with a van near Store Hill, Smith’s, shortly before 12.30pm. Nobody else appeared to be injured. Police said injuries did not appear to be lif...

A bid to get more women involved in the traditionally male shipping industry was launched yesterday. Tammy Richardson-Augustus, director of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association in Bermuda, handed over a booklet designed to promo...

A man accused of an attempt to smuggle $9.5 million of heroin into Bermuda said he thought he was carrying gold and diamonds for men he had met in the UK. Josef Vlcek, 49, said that he did not know that drugs were hidden in his suitcases. He told t...