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An Opposition MP has claimed the Government’s decision to appoint a representative in Europe without advertising the post “goes against best practice”. Michael Dunkley, of the One Bermuda Alliance, said the opportunity should have been made available...

A host of racial reparations have been proposed by the group Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, which has issued its 2019 racial justice platform. The group called for the Bermuda Government to join the reparations commission of Caricom, to “seek ...

Police are investigating a “suspicious incident” at a Warwick business yesterday. Staff at the The Hub on Middle Road described the matter, which was caught on camera, as a suspected armed robbery attempt. Gavin Kennedy, owner of the business which s...

A man found with almost $2.5 million of drugs in his home was jailed for 13 years yesterday. Jamal Robinson, 42, admitted possession of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis resin with intent to supply after a search of his Warwick home. Robinson — w...

A Bermudian man has avoided jail time after brandishing a BB gun while he walked down a busy road in Hull, England, two summers ago. Tyevon Bean, 29, admitted affray in Hull Crown Court last week, The Hull Daily Mail reported. The court heard tha...

Curtis Dickinson told a business audience yesterday that he would have liked to have started from scratch with tax reform, rather than modify the existing code. In his maiden Budget Statement last Friday, Mr Dickinson introduced none of the new taxes...

This year’s Budget is the first in 16 years to be balanced, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt declared that the island’s debt was to fall “for the first time since 2003”, in a Budget that “reflects our vision, and clearly demonstrates fiscal dis...

A no-confidence vote in the senior managers of public schools was dismissed yesterday by the Minister of Education. Diallo Rabain backed Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, and Valerie Robinson-James, the permanent secretary at the minist...

Bermuda’s business leaders were overwhelmingly optimistic at the annual Bermuda Chamber of Commerce Budget breakfast. Attendee Zina Edwards Malcolm, called the 2019 Budget “a hell of a relief”. “I am quite relieved that there weren’t any major extra ...

The island’s newest soldiers fired their first shots on the firing range yesterday. The 25-strong group of recruits spent days learning safety procedures and the workings of the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s SA-80 rifles before they were allowed to open f...