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A grassroots petition to move the Bermuda Day celebrations to a Friday has gathered nearly 350 signatures. The petition wants to see the holiday, parade and half marathon shifted to the Friday before the last Monday in May to allow people more time t...

A community activist is calling for the sale of toy guns to be banned, claiming that they could result in a tragedy. And youth worker Carlton Simmons said the toys are also sending out the wrong message to children, teaching them that violence is acc...

Reform of Bermuda’s laws on cannabis will today be debated in the House of Assembly. Government Whip Cole Simons said: “I think it will be a long debate because it’s a topical issue and, as we look at other jurisdictions, they are certainly examining...

A 22-year-old motorcyclist was injured after the bike he was riding was in collision with a car. The accident happened at the junction of Blackwatch Pass and Marsh Folly Road, in Pembroke, during the late afternoon rush hour yesterday. It is underst...

Fitch Ratings has downgraded the Bermuda Government’s credit rating by a notch, in the wake of a fifth consecutive year of recession in 2013. In its commentary, the rating agency says Bermuda has a weak fiscal position, given Government’s large debt ...

Private nursing homes with poor standards of care should be closed, according to the Progressive Labour Party’s deputy leader Derrick Burgess. And the Opposition MP listed a catalogue of neglect of elderly people in private care homes, including one ...

Much-loved educator Lorraine Fubler, who taught generations of Bermudian schoolchildren to read, has died at the age of 98. Ms Fubler’s more than 40 years of teaching began at Central School, now Victor Scott Primary, where she trained before moving ...

Pupils at CedarBridge Academy will today stage a special tribute to US writer, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died yesterday aged 86. The tribute to Dr Angelou, who died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had ta...