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Half a mile can feel like an eternity when you’ve never run before and Al Williams had to be reined in. “I had to ask him to slow down or he was going to hurt himself,” said Catherine Burns. It’s something that hardly ever happens in Beat the Couch,...

The start of the new academic year at public schools was marked by major problems. Briefly, these were the insecure future of the Commissioner of Education, the mould at a middle school, and the general state of cleanliness and disrepair. Such proble...

A new Salvation Army shelter could offer community-wide programmes as well as a halfway house for the homeless. Divisional commander Major Frank Pittman said renovations to the Bishop Spencer Building would help to deal with the island’s homeless pr...

Lynched in effigy, but no real harm done.” The words belong to Tim Fischer, Australia’s deputy prime minister in the mid-1990s — the moment when Australia radically changed its gun laws. He used the phrase this week when, in the wake of the Las Vegas...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s reaction to Catalonia’s independence referendum was as foolish as the vote was reckless. Catalan officials should never have scheduled the vote — but once they did, Spanish officials should not have tried to st...

Government is calling on the public to keep a watch out for two pest vine species being found around the island. Kudzu and hyacinth beans were reported in Bermuda in 2008 and, despite efforts to remove the aggressive vines, patches remain. A governme...

Paul Stafford is the new chief executive officer of Digicel’s operations in Bermuda. He is Digicel Bermuda’s third CEO since July 2014, and he will also lead the Bermuda Telephone Company. Mr Stafford replaces Robin Seale, who served as CEO from 2015...

Public service workers were given an update on the Bermuda Industrial Union’s wage negotiations with the Bermuda Government yesterday. Between 400 and 500 workers attended the BIU general meeting at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Hamilton yester...

The 2017 Bermuda International Gombey Festival has been expanded from a one-day event to an entire weekend, beginning tomorrow. Social development minister Zane DeSilva said: “I want to encourage the public to come out and enjoy this dazzling, energe...

Police Week is set to take to the steps of City Hall this evening with an hour of music and dance. The Halton Regional Police Pipes and Drums from Ontario, Canada, are set to join with the Bermuda Islands Pipe Band and Highland Dancers for a performa...