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Mental Health Awareness Week was launched yesterday with the theme of dignity. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the acting health minister, addressed an audience at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute and highlighted the need to “consider the humanity in peo...

Michael Dunkley is to meet with Bermuda Ombudsman Victoria Pearman in the “near future” to discuss concerns expressed over “dismissive language” used by Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, towards her office. It comes after letters sent in Au...

Health spending dropped 1.7 per cent over the previous year for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, the Bermuda Health Council has reported. That decline coincided with a 0.7 per cent drop in the Island’s population, and an 8.5 per cent rise in he...

Police report that minor damage was sustained to the service’s new Boston Whaler, the 32ft Heron 3, which was struck by a Bermuda sloop that lost control in high winds on Thursday. The boat had been delivered that same day, and was secured at the doc...

Belco crews today restored power to more than 450 customers, with only 46 remaining without electricity by the evening. Areas addressed included Landmark, Benny Bay Road, Spring Hill, Cove Valley, Old Road, Hibiscus Lane, Cut Road, Chapel of Ease, P...

Blackwatch Pass will be closed off to traffic starting tomorrow as road work in the area continues. According to a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works, the road will be closed until at least October 15 to allow for road improvements at the j...

The Norwegian Breakaway rolled into Dockyard a couple of hours behind schedule this morning after a sick passenger had to be airlifted off the vessel. A 30-year-old woman was winched off the liner by a Coastguard helicopter in the early hours of Tues...

The Causeway is to open from one-way to two-way traffic by 2.30pm today, the Ministry of Public Works has announced. Traffic lights and barriers directing traffic in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin are to come down by about 2pm. The ministry thank...

Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs, has issued a statement maintaining that Victoria Pearman, the Bermuda Ombudsman, was in error when a report cited maladministration on his ministry’s behalf. Senator Fahy spoke after his dismissal of the re...

A recent civil service hiring freeze will not have an impact on the hiring of substitute teachers, the Department of Education announced this afternoon. A statement issued by the department said that “the matter relating to the hiring of substitute t...