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Successive failures of three out of four Belco power cables to the West End was the cause of electricity cuts that blacked out thousands of customers, the firm said yesterday. A spokesman for Belco explained that one line went out of commission last...

Bermuda will say goodbye to a “legend in the community” when musician and grassroots activist Cleveland Simmons leaves to live in Britain, a former culture minister has said. Dale Butler was speaking at a farewell concert organised by Mr Simmons, who...

Many black people will be frozen out of legal cannabis use because they will be unable to afford an annual $750 licence fee for personal cultivation, campaigners warned yesterday. Social Justice Bermuda said the fee could keep the illegal cannabis ma...

A plant nursery had sold seeds and seedlings that could be contaminated with a parasitic vine. Aberfeldy Nurseries said it had sold 44 packets of imported seeds, which may contain the dodder parasite, and six customers had been accounted for. Julie G...

Two police officers have contracted Covid-19, it was revealed last night. A police spokesman said one of the officers tested positive after returning from overseas and the other may have contracted the coronavirus on the island. He added: “Both offic...

Sandcastle sculptors will be asked to reflect the unprecedented events of this year in the annual Bermuda Sandcastle Competition. Hannah Emmerson, the organiser of the event, said it would be the first time in 25 years that the competition would have...

Growing up with a destructively alcoholic parent is fodder for humour as well as shock in Kirkland Hamill’s Bermudian-American memoir. But Mr Hamill’s deeper message, to be shared on Wednesday in a live webinar about his just-published book, is: you’...

A new water park at a hotel has made a splash despite the economic impact of Covid-19, the owners said. Kinezumi Water Sports, which opened at Rosewood Bermuda in Hamilton Parish on July 24, is a large inflatable floating park with a variety of obsta...

Businesses enjoyed a welcome boost thanks to the first Rum Festival held in Dockyard over the weekend. The event, hosted jointly by Gosling’s Ltd and the West End Development Corporation, is likely to make a return to the West End for years to come, ...

An ice cream salesman pleaded for compensation from Belco after $10,000 of his stock melted during an electricity blackout in the West End. Peter Jovetic, of Alex and Pete’s Bermuda Ice Cream Shop in Dockyard, lost dozens of gallons of ice cream that...