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A back to school uniform and supplies appeal is to take place next month. Three Government departments — the Department of Financial Assistance, the Department of Workforce Development and the Department of Child and Family Services — have teamed up...

Bermuda’s police helped to smash an alleged team of international drug smugglers that targeted Bermuda, it was revealed yesterday. Island officers tipped off Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police after fentanyl — a synthetic drug similar to morphine...

A civil servant accused of a series of sexual offences against a child appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The 43-year-old Sandys man was charged with seven offences. Prosecutors alleged that on March 27, the defendant showed a boy, who was und...

Members of the public will retain access to a St George’s beach near a new hotel development. The news came as the House of Assembly repealed an earlier Act to develop the new St Regis hotel in the Olde Towne, which had given “reasonable” access to F...

A new Shakespeare on the Rock series of plays is to be launched by the Bermuda Festival. TJ Armand, festival director, said organisers wanted to continue the work of the Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival, which helped pupils understand and appreci...

Legislation to protect those with insurance policies and boost solar energy adoption were approved in the House on Friday. The Insurance Amendment (Number 2) Act and the Electricity Amendment Act both garnered support from both sides of the House. Da...

Legislation designed to make it cheaper for property owners to register their title without a lawyer was passed in the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a Progressive Labour Party senator, said the Land Title Registration Amendment Act would “smoot...

The Government has been accused of “discriminatory” payroll tax reforms that will increase costs for small to medium businesses and “kill jobs”. The attack came from the Opposition One Bermuda Alliance as the House of Assembly debated an amendment t...

Hamilton’s town crier has won a top award in Britain. Ed Christopher beat 19 other competitors in the National Town Crier Competition, held at Helmsley Castle in North Yorkshire — and also picked up the award for best-dressed crier. Mr Christopher sa...

A school safety report promised last year has still to be completed, the education minister said yesterday. Diallo Rabain explained that the report based on health and safety inspections last autumn was “still being compiled”. Mr Rabain said: “And ...