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International Business

Net profit lowers for Avance Gas

Bermudian-based Avance Gas Holding Ltd has reported a net profit of $32.1 million in fiscal year 2021. That figure compares to a net profit of $70.9 million in 2020. The company, which is engaged in the transportation of liquefied petroleum gas, had ...

Feb 23, 2022

Bermuda Stock Exchange

Bank shares finished lower on the NYSE

The RG/BSX Index fell 13.13 (0.49 per cent) to 2,674.67 for the day, dragged down by Bank of N.T. Butterfield Ltd trading down 25 cents (0.6 per cent) and closing at $40 after 4,332 shares changed hands. The other issue trading for the day was Bermud...

Feb 22, 2022

General

Hero rescuers pluck elderly man from capsized boat

Fisherman Ronald Bean is lucky to be alive after he was rescued from his capsized boat

Feb 22, 2022

Court

Murder trial defence lawyer says evidence against his client is ‘unreliable’

Counsel for a man accused of the gun murder of a man as he left a Christmas party appealed to a jury yesterday to scrutinise the evidence and weigh the motivations of witnesses. Charles Richardson, who appeared for defendant Taaj Muhammad, said the e...

Feb 22, 2022

Environment

Industrial development plans face refusal

Plans for a warehouse development off Lolly’s Well Road in Smith’s face being recommended for refusal after opposition from neighbours

Feb 22, 2022

General

Pastor woken by smell of burning after vehicles afire in church car park

The lead pastor of a church where two vehicles burst into flames in the early hours of yesterday said he wanted to work with the police to ensure public safety. Jonathan Lambe added he was not sure if the two vehicles were set on fire on purpose, but...

Feb 22, 2022

General

Bus service needs to communicate better with public, Ombudsman says

The bus service has been told to develop clearer communication to signal cancellations to travellers

Feb 22, 2022

Event

GALLERY: Midshipman Richard Sutherland Dale Commemorative Service

Feb 22, 2022

Health

New date for Relay for Life

The Relay For Life has been moved from Friday and Saturday May 20 and 21 to the weekend before, May 13 and 14

Feb 22, 2022

Opinion Writer

We need to put people’s trust back in government

Trust in our political leaders should be the cornerstone of a healthy democracy; that belief that politicians and their ministries will act in our best interests. Distrust in politics is corrosive to a healthy democracy and in Bermuda this has become...

Feb 22, 2022

Opinion Writer

Sir John, a quintessential giant

The following poem was written in honour of Sir John Swan, the former Premier of Bermuda, receiving the Legacy Insight Award at Leopards Club on Friday: As we preserve our history for posterity The name Sir John will reverberate through the ages...

Feb 22, 2022

Opinion Writer

More on S.S. Toddings: Up from slavery

S.S. Toddings’s Black ancestry may have been an open secret, but it was a secret just the same. Documents housed in the Bermuda Archives confirm that his mother and grandmother were formerly enslaved, which he managed to keep out of the public arena ...

Feb 22, 2022

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Net profit lowers for Avance Gas

Bank shares finished lower on the NYSE

Hero rescuers pluck elderly man from capsized boat

Murder trial defence lawyer says evidence against his client is ‘unreliable’

Industrial development plans face refusal

Pastor woken by smell of burning after vehicles afire in church car park

Bus service needs to communicate better with public, Ombudsman says

GALLERY: Midshipman Richard Sutherland Dale Commemorative Service

New date for Relay for Life

We need to put people’s trust back in government

Sir John, a quintessential giant

More on S.S. Toddings: Up from slavery