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A teacher in Bermuda who had consensual sex with a pupil would not commit the offence of “sexual exploitation by a person in a position of trust or authority” if the child is aged 16 or over — unlike in Britain. It has been an offence there since 200...

A woman groomed by her teacher for sex while she was a teenage schoolgirl has called for a change to the law to protect 16 and 17-year-old girls from predators. Christine DaCosta, 38, said adults who worked with children could target girls by groomin...

Communal areas of an East End housing complex slammed for unsanitary conditions are regularly cleaned, a government representative said yesterday. The spokesman for the Ministry of Public Works said that the Bermuda Housing Corporation employed prof...

A child protection agency warned employers to rely on police records for background checks after a sex offender obtained a court letter that wrongly claimed he had no criminal convictions. Malik Zuill, 22, was sentenced to five months in jail in July...

As we approach 2020 and the fourth year of the Bermuda Truth & Reconciliation Community Conversations (TRCC), the President of CURB Lynne Winfield answers questions about where we go from here. Why did CURB feel there was a need to begin the Bermuda...

Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited (”BELCO” or the “Company”) has won the Best Energy Storage Project award at the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (“CREF”) for its recently commissioned Nolan Smith Battery Energy Storage System (“BESS”). CREF i...

Recently, the Department of Community Affairs and the Bermuda Arts Council donated a combined $6,500 to the Eddie Ming Drum School and Rhythm Lab. The funds will aid in the hosting of an upcoming student workshop, which features Cuban guest percussio...

The public are invited to attend three upcoming workshops hosted at the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) located at Sofia House, on Church Street, Hamilton. All workshops are Free of Charge and are a part of our mission to empower women with the informa...

A Cuban drummer has joined a top Bermudian teacher to stage a two-week percussion camp. Angel Luis Ruiz will help Eddie Ming teach before a gala production of Latin jazz next week. He said: “I love drumming, I love the connection I have with my instr...

A 13-year-old schoolgirl has become the youngest person to circumnavigate Bermuda in a tiny Optimist-class dinghy. Rachael Betschart — a sailor since she was aged 4 — completed the gruelling trip in just over ten hours and admitted there were times s...