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A proposal to test the English language skills of foreign workers could come into effect later this month, The Royal Gazette can reveal. A Ministry of Home Affairs spokeswoman yesterday confirmed a draft policy is now under review. The spokeswoman a...

Women are “more needed than ever” to step up in politics, the island’s first Progressive Labour Party premier said yesterday. Dame Jennifer Smith, who led the PLP to its historic 1998 victory, said: “Women who are there in politics should each pick a...

A woman was banned from driving for a year and fined $800 after she refused to take a breath test. Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday that police went to the scene of an early hours single vehicle crash in Devonshire. Officers found that a car driven...

Fears over legislation designed to control loan sharks will be considered before a final Bill is presented to Parliament, the home affairs minister vowed yesterday. Walton Brown explained that submissions made during public consultation on the Debt C...

A guidance programme at a West End primary school could benefit other pupils at other institutions, the head teacher said yesterday. O’Brien Osborne, principal at Somerset Primary, said the school’s Checkmate programme, encouraged closer bonds and m...

Two American tourists were fined a combined total of $12,000 in Magistrates’ Court for having prescription-based “medical marijuana” after spending several days in custody in Hamilton Police Station. Serenade of the Seas passengers David Hutchins, 23...

Roadside breath test checkpoints will be set up for the second time this weekend, police warned yesterday. The checkpoints in Devonshire and Paget, gazetted last Friday, will be in force on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The first set of checks ran fro...

A man who almost collided with a police car while over the drink-driving limit was fined and banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday. Nedio Medeiros, 39, was arrested in the early hours of yesterday on Trimingham Hill in Paget. The court heard ...

A fundraiser planned for a woman battling cancer became instead a way to help pay for her funeral after she died before the event. Maria Caisey lost her fight just three days before organiser Jamal Hart held the Catch A Fire event to raise funds to a...

A man denied smuggling $647,000 worth of heroin into Bermuda at a Supreme Court hearing yesterday. Omar Davy, 37, pleaded not guilty to the importation of the drug on July 28 and possession with intent to supply. Davy, a Jamaican national, also denie...