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A man who refused to take a breath test was ordered off the roads for 18 months yesterday. Daniel Tucker, from Devonshire, was spotted by police near the Esso gas station on Hamilton’s Par-la-Ville Road. Magistrates’ Court heard that Tucker, 30, was...

An Opposition MP claimed yesterday that $175,000 spent by Government on an unused office in Washington DC could instead have funded schools or pensions. Michael Dunkley, a former One Bermuda Alliance premier, started to “phase out” use of the office ...

Primary school pupils are prepared to avoid getting tangled up in gang culture after a six-week course designed to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence. Ten students at Prospect Primary School in Pembroke, aged 10 or 11, completed the Gang Resist...

The US Consulate has been hit by a partial US government shutdown, but US Customs pre-clearance at the airport had not been affected. Constance Dierman, the US Consul General, said the shutdown, caused by failure to agree the national Budget, had aff...

Tough new European Union rules designed to combat tax avoidance can be turned to Bermuda’s advantage, a top manager at professional services firm KPMG said yesterday. Will McCallum, a KPMG managing director, said turmoil caused by the Economic Substa...

Conservationists hope lionfish will be back on the menu this winter as the fifth annual Winter Lionfish Derby picks up steam. As of Monday afternoon more than 180 lionfish had already been caught as part of this year’s derby. A spokesman said: “It se...

Te Government spent more than $135,000 on specialists to help navigate the European Union’s demands for economic substance rules and Brexit-related matters. Legal and advisory firm Steptoe, which has offices in Brussels, London and Washington, was hi...

The number of cruise ship visitors rocketed by more than 168 per cent last November compared with the same period in 2017, the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday. The number of tourists who arrived by air rose by just 2.7 per cent over the same...

A 15-year-old girl died yesterday after she was found unconscious at her home. A police spokesman said the girl was found “unresponsive” about noon at a house in My Lord’s Bay Road in Hamilton Parish. He added: “Despite life-saving efforts at the sce...

A $5,000 fine served on a schoolgirl who got work experience as a hairdresser without a work permit has been quashed by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun ruled that the Chief Immigration Officer was wrong to penalise Ashley Aguiar for ...