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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...

How are you with multiple choice? Try this one: which of the following things is the biggest threat facing Bermuda? Is it: A, Bermuda’s flatlining economy B, The Covid-19 global health pandemic C, Bermuda’s eye-watering government debt — with a newly...

There are encouraging signs for the world economy that have given Bermudian-based Nordic American Tankers optimism for the future. The tanker operator has reported net income of $49.1 million, or 33 cents per share, up 24 per cent from the first quar...

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...

For more than a year, Naje Lathan couldn’t find work. Desperate, and having tried everything else he could think of, he posted his plight on Facebook. A woman eventually offered him a job cleaning her tennis court. Naje, 22, turned it into an opportu...

The dramatic and welcome decision by the United Arab Emirates to normalise relations with Israel is indisputably a win for both countries and for the Trump Administration, which helped to broker the deal. There is an even bigger victory to be had, th...

Somewhere in a desert, a group of young, swimsuit-clad singles have spent their summer trying to find love in the time of Covid — or at least score some cash and a little fame. They are the latest contestants on CBS’s Love Island, an American take o...