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A programme designed to promote phonological skills in preschoolers is having a positive impact, according to a new report. The Reading Clinic’s I-PLAY (Interactive Phonological Literacy Activities for Youngsters) programme, which operates in four p...

Foul play is not suspected in the sudden death of a man found in an unresponsive state at a Southampton residence on Tuesday, according to police. Emergency services were dispatched to a home on Eastdale Lane at 7.35pm, where a 63-year-old man was di...

The Mayor of Hamilton has called for a police presence at the city’s bus terminal to tackle antisocial behaviour and violence. Charles Gosling’s plea comes after a vicious brawl involving several young male students erupted on Church Street outside t...

The Department of Public Transportation has announced the following bus cancellations for Wednesday afternoon. The following buses will not be running: Route 8D from Dockyard to Hamilton at 4.35pm. Route 9 from Hamilton to Prospect at 5.45pm. Route 9...

The endangered Bermuda bean has earned a place in a conservation bank intended to preserve international species. Samples of the species, which has been clinging to life in Bermuda, have now been stored at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norweg...

A Massachusetts couple’s visit to the island marked a milestone in more ways than one. Polly and Arthur Logan have now notched up 25 visits since their first trip in the 1970s. And the pair’s most recent trip was their first for 17 years, and was pl...

The fourth golf tournament in memory of chef Tomasz Tabor is to be held in two weeks’ time. The event, to honour Mr Tabor, who was killed in a bike accident in 2014, will raise funds for a scholarship scheme set up in his name. Neil Mountford, one of...

Governor, John Rankin, has fired Freddie Evans from his position as education commissioner, it was confirmed yesterday. But Dr Evans’s lawyer Mark Diel said his sacking came too late to be valid and that the battle would now end up in the courts for ...

New details on Bermuda’s role in the toppling of slavery have been revealed by historian Clarence Maxwell. Dr Maxwell’s lecture for the ThinkFest series was based on two notable figures from local history. A Bermudian former slave, Mary Prince, becam...

Plans to water down the power of the island’s human rights legislation could lead to abuses, lawyer Tim Marshall warned yesterday. He said that Walton Brown, Minister of Home Affairs, should reconsider proposals to give Bermuda’s immigration law supe...