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Workers at Hamilton Docks are to suspend overtime work from Thursday, it was revealed yesterday. Chris Furbert, Bermuda Industrial Union president, confirmed that the Portworkers’ Division voted last week for an overtime suspension. He said the actio...

Ira Philip’s loyalty to labour dated back to his childhood memories of “rebels” such as American activist A. Philip Randolph. Mr Philip, a lifelong newsman, documented the struggles of Bermudian activists such as E.F. Gordon throughout his career. De...

Ira Philip, the former journalist, historian and Progressive Labour Party senator, has died, aged 92. Mr Philip became one of Bermuda’s most celebrated reporters and columnists during a career spanning seven decades and several news organisations. Bu...

On his 90th birthday: “I don’t have any political affiliations or leanings. I stand for equality, justice, fair play, freedom and honesty. “In varying degrees, the political parties here theorise on these things and to some extent they try to practis...

He was on the front line as history was made and his reports will ensure the events that shaped modern Bermuda will never be forgotten. Ira Philip’s articles for The Bermuda Recorder on the developments that helped change the face of the island are p...

The “double life” of would-be murderer Jahmico Trott has been featured in a British newspaper. The Daily Mail said the 30-year-old gunman, jailed for 25 years last week for attempted murder and use of a firearm, was a barber to English Premier Leagu...

A taxi driver accused of having a gun and drugs in his vehicle claimed they had been left there by a passenger. However, prosecutors called Jahdel Rogers’s story a “pack of lies” and alleged he used his taxi as a mobile drug-dealing operation. Mr Rog...

A 38-year-old man who admitted breaking into the home of a charity’s founder was ordered yesterday to appear at the drug treatment court. Magistrates’ Court heard that Jahmeco Blakeney, from Pembroke, broke into the home of Martha Dismont, founder ...

The Bermuda Hospitality Institute is looking for students studying tourism for its annual scholarships. The Tomasz Tabor Bermuda Hospitality & Tourism Studies Scholarship was launched four years ago in tribute to the late chef. Malika Cartwright, exe...

A 39-year-old man was banned from the roads for 18 months today after he admitted drink-driving. Marquel Deshields, of Paget, pleaded guilty to impaired driving in Magistrates’ Court this morning. Magistrates’ Court heard that Deshields was stopped ...