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Hopes for a busy last Friday before Christmas for shops and restaurants were dashed yesterday after the lights went out across the island. Karl Massam, the general manager of restaurant group Yellowfin, said he was “excited” on the way to work at the...

An island-wide blackout failed to slow business at the new airport, a spokeswoman said yesterday. But bad winter weather off the US East Coast caused delays to some flights scheduled to leave the island. The JetBlue flight was scheduled to leave for ...

A power cut that hit the island yesterday was an “anomaly”, the president of Belco’s parent company insisted. Wayne Caines said staff continued to investigate the cause of the outage, but a recurrence was not expected. Most customers had power resto...

About three quarters of the island had power restored this afternoon as Belco crews worked to get electricity to all residents and businesses by the end of the day. Dennis Pimentel, the company president, said that teams were “feverishly working" to ...

A former Cabinet minister has been appointed to a newly created role at the helm of Belco’s parent company. Wayne Caines will be Ascendant president from Monday. A company spokesman said: “The new role comes following the acquisition of Ascendant by ...

Power firm Belco said today that recently installed equipment at its new power plant was designed to prevent a repeat of the problem that caused soot to land on homes around its plant. Belco was flooded with complaints from area residents and MPs in ...

“Severe flooding” at a trenching job on Harrington Sound Road in Hamilton Parish has caused the road to be closed off, the Ministry of Public Works advised. The closure runs from Rocky Ridge Road to Sommersall Road, and will remain in effect until th...

Bermuda’s economy is set to get a boost from the cash windfall that flows from the $365 million sale of Ascendant Group. The sale to Canadian company Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp was completed yesterday. Ascendant, the parent company of Belco, ...

The sale of Ascendant Group Ltd to a Canadian utilities firm has been completed, a spokesman said today. Belco’s parent company was acquired by Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. An Ascendant spokesman said: “Ascendant’s existing Bermudian manageme...

A total of 474 Belco customers in Warwick and Paget suffered power cuts at the weekend. The power firm’s website said the outages began at 7.10pm on Friday and restoration was expected by 10.10pm that night.

Dear Sir, I know there’s already pressure on Belco concerning the new bellowing smoke stack. I would just like to add to it. We live within a five-mile radius of Belco and can now smell the fumes from the new stack daily. If I had a child attending B...

The Ministry of Public Works today warned motorists that traffic along an East End road will be delayed from next month until spring next year for roadworks. A ministry spokesman said a one-lane closure will be in force from Coney Island Road to Frac...