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After the eighth - and final - attempt, Nasa last night launched its KiNET-X mission when a Black Brant XII rocket blasted off from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia. It meant that people were able to see a green vapour cloud over Ber...

It’s not polluted, it is stable and it burns well – and it turns out that Bermuda beeswax could be the perfect fuel for satellites. Scientists with MIT’s Space Enabled research group have been given a batch of the beeswax after being approached by th...

A memorial flotilla sailed through Hamilton Harbour yesterday in tribute to three Marine & Ports staff who died within a week of each another. The vessels sounded their horns in a final salute to Shawn Bremar, Andre Durham and Macio Lightbourne after...

The temporary loss of a pilot boat because of damage caused by a collision with a reef will not interrupt services, the Ministry of Transport said yesterday. A spokeswoman admitted the damage to the St David, which struck a reef north of the island l...

A rocket launch expected to produce a spectacular light show was last night delayed for a fourth time. US space agency Nasa tweeted that the launch was “scrubbed” because of “upper level winds not being within the required limits for a safe launch”...

An investigation has been launched after the island’s flagship pilot boat St David suffered severe damage after it crashed into a reef. The smash happened as the boat was underway to the Northeast Breaker Beacon as part of a training exercise. The cr...

School bus capacity is to be slashed as part of the battle against Covid-19. Children go back the classroom on Monday – but the transport minister warned that three clear feet between pupils on buses and minibuses was required. A transport spokesma...

Two people, one of them 81 years old, died after separate traffic collisions that happened minutes apart on Tuesday evening. Leon Eugene Thomas, 81, known as Eugene, and Marvin Lambe, 56, were the third and fourth deaths on the roads this year. A pol...

Government is set to remove seven abandoned boats from Coot Pond in St George’s after no one stepped forward to claim them. The Ministry of Transport published a notice in the Official Gazette on April 26 urging the owners of the seven boats “seeming...

Bus and ferry passes can be exchanged for different months over the next few days, the transport ministry said today. Officials decided to extend public transport passes for April to the end of May to make up for service disruptions caused by health ...