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A 24-year-old Devonshire man was remanded in custody yesterday after he admitted repeatedly sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl. Shundray Gilbert pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to three counts of touching the pre-teen for a sexual purpose wh...

A longstanding thrift shop has grown into a popular lifeline for children’s charity the Committee of 25. Among the group’s goals for this year is boosting the turnover of stock at its Bargain Box store on Serpentine Road in Pembroke. Jackie MacLellan...

A plant to process material for backfill has been proposed for a property on Marsh Lane in Devonshire. According to a planning application, Kip Froud of Invisible Trenching Ltd has sought planning permission to run a crushing and sifting plant at #10...

The island is well equipped to deal with any possible serious reactions to the coronavirus vaccine, the health minister said. Kim Wilson cautioned that strong adverse reactions to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 were “rare”. Common react...

Shares of Argus Group Holdings fell 15 cents, or 3.5 per cent, to $4.10 after 6,500 traded on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index. There was also trading in 16,423 shares of One Communications, but with no change to the closing price of $3.95. One informed t...

Butterfield Bank’s profit for the fourth quarter was $42.1 million, or 84 cents per share, about $1.8 million less than the same period in 2019. For the full year, it had net income of $147.2 million, or $2.90 per share, compared to $177.1 million t...

An array of Bermuda talent, with many artists kept from the limelight by the coronavirus pandemic, will be showcased on Friday on the grounds of City Hall. The Department of Community and Cultural Affairs is launching Creatives Live!, with more artis...

Several hundred homes lost power this afternoon in the area of Fractious Street in Hamilton Parish. Belco’s outage site reported 821 customers in the dark as of 3pm. A Belco spokesman confirmed there was “an incident this afternoon involving a constr...

The Department of Workforce Development has partnered with 10 local recruitment agencies to hold a virtual networking event that attracted some 60 Bermudian corporate professionals seeking employment opportunities. The event has been hailed as a succ...

A citywide food vendor initiative was rolled out this afternoon with the opening of a mobile pizzeria in the heart of Hamilton. J&B’s Food Fired Pizza catered to the lunch rush today when they set up shop at EF Gordon Square on the junction of Du...

Biometric testing for visa applications will be available for two days next month, Government House announced today. Biometric scans are needed for British visa applications but access on-island has been limited by Covid-19 travel restrictions. A spo...

Fire officers will take part in emergency driver training for up to five weeks from Monday. The “simulated” exercises will run until March 19. A Government spokeswoman said: “The Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service wishes to allay public concerns as ther...