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Workmen today began taking down the flagpole on Front Street. The City of Hamilton announced on Friday that the damaged pole had to be replaced, after 40 years on the job. The flagpole had stood on Front Street at the junction with Burnaby Hill, sinc...

Hamilton's weekly Harbour Nights street fair promises to be bigger and better than ever before after organisers decided to give the flagging event a major make over this season. Plans to expand the Front Street festival to include Queen Street and Re...

A “community beautification” initiative will bring out volunteers to spruce up needy homes in North East Hamilton. The three-day campaign, augmented for one day by a team of 50 US Coast officer cadets, is aimed at launching a long-term commitment to ...

‘In many places one will probably see for a long time to come the longshoreman carrying 200-pound bags on his back …” — Captain Pierre Garoche, 1941 As goes the saying, ‘We are what we eat’, it is axiomatic in an utterly maritime place like Bermuda t...

The City of Hamilton is “committed and determined” to make the proposed Par-la-Ville hotel “a reality, very soon”, Hamilton Rotarians were told yesterday. However Government needs to stop “lollygagging” and encourage hospitality development, said Don...

City Hall bosses made a “major error of judgement” in their handling of the waterfront redevelopment project, according to former Premier Sir John Swan. Sir John maintains that the public should have been widely consulted before the City decided to i...

When construction boss Michael MacLean was selected as the general contractor for the Par-la-Ville hotel project, he had no idea he would end up being lead developer for the hotel as well as the waterfront redevelopment project. Ted Adams had spent s...

Michael MacClean cannot confirm Russian billionaire is backing waterfront project By Ayo Johnson Plans to build a hotel in Hamilton are still on the boil, according to developer Michael MacClean. But the waterfront redevelopment project has ground t...

Suggestions that City Hall staff are guilty of maladministration have been dismissed by the civil servants’ union as “whispers in the wind”. In a response to comments by Deputy Mayor Donal Smith that the Ombudsman should investigate the day-to day ad...

There were two very positive announcements yesterday that may herald a change in both thinking and fortunes. One, smaller in scale, was the decision to expand Harbour Nights into both Reid and Queen Streets. The other, larger in scale, was the news t...

The Corporation of Hamilton has leased City waterfront property to developers. But it is maintaining a stony silence over the arrangement and Government is yet to conduct its due diligence on the project. Mayor Graeme Outerbridge revealed that the le...