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The retirement age should be increased to 70 over a ten-year period, a Labour Advisory Committee report recommended yesterday. The report, tabled in the House of Assembly, said Bermuda’s ageing population had put pressure on pension plans and public ...

A former soldier Called to the Bar yesterday said he was impelled to become a lawyer after his Royal Bermuda Regiment brother was killed on duty in a car crash in Britain. Julian Wheddon said his family felt helpless and lacked a sense of closure aft...

A Progressive Labour Party backbencher claimed yesterday that Bermuda’s longest-serving premier “tap danced” for the “most reactionary and racist elements” in society. Rolfe Commissiong made the comments in the House of Assembly and cited two broadca...

Legislation to change how money is allocated to the Bermuda Hospitals Board is not in the island’s best interests, a top insurance executive said yesterday. John Wight, the president and chief executive of BF&M, said that “the healthcare funding ref...

Bermuda will be removed from the European Union’s blacklist of noncooperative tax jurisdictions next week, a Bloomberg Law report said yesterday. The news agency added that its report was based on documents obtained by Bloomberg News. The report came...

There has been a recall of frozen Tyson Crispy Chicken Strips and Tyson Fully Cooked buffalo chicken strips owing to potential contamination by metal fragments. Tyson Foods Incorporated decided to expand a voluntary recall originally issued on March...

A bonanza of bargains will be available at the Salvation Army’s thrift store today. All items at the charity’s store will be on offer with $2 price tags to celebrate its reopening after renovations. A Salvation Army spokeswoman said: “Our thrift stor...

Police overstepped their authority when they handcuffed a 15-year-old schoolboy in the care of the Department of Child and Family Services and locked him up at the Co-Ed prison last week, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. Assistant Justice Mark Pettin...

Bermuda’s education commissioner has asked schools to let the business world know how they could boost education. Kalmar Richards, in a contribution to The Royal Gazette’s Bermuda National School Salute, said public schools could not function or meet...

The former chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council claims in an application for judicial review pending before the Supreme Court that the Premier interfered in the running of the watchdog to push taxpayer-funded payments to Ewart Brown. Tawanna...