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The death toll from the coronavirus rose to 114 last night after health officials announced two more deaths. There are now 16 infected people in hospital, with three of them in intensive care. The latest test figures showed 496 new infections out of ...

A motorcyclist who killed a father of four in a collision was yesterday jailed for more than four years. Ishmael Lightbourne – who admitted last year that he caused the death of Shannon Davis while driving while impaired – was also banned from the ro...

Two deaths from Covid-19 were reported last night – which pushed the death toll from the coronavirus up to 112. Officials added that there were 14 patients in hospital – two of them in intensive care. The last deaths attributed to the coronavirus wer...

Small adjustments and better co-ordination in the healthcare system could help save lives, the Bermuda Health Council said yesterday. A BHeC spokesman said that the health service had excellent providers, sufficient equipment and adequate funding for...

A “systemic breakdown” in the healthcare system that allowed some people to slip through the cracks has to be tackled, activists said yesterday. Friends of Milton Ming – a Bermudian chef who died days after he was flown overseas for treatment – s...

A motorcyclist who was more than double the drink-driving limit when he caused the death of a father of four later told police he had never held a valid driving licence, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Ishmael Lightbourne, 41, also admitted to off...

A mother who lost her son in a crash said she was moved to see members of the public cover the island in blue yesterday in memory of him and others who have died on the roads. Antoinette Burgess said that she had “never dreamt” of seeing the blue clo...

Gregory Seymour, a singer who led the popular rhythm and blues group Burning Ice, was one of its few surviving members. The band, which hit its heyday in the 1970s, also enjoyed popularity overseas. Music historian Dale Butler’s book Music on the Roc...

Church leaders and human rights activists yesterday paid tribute to South African churchman Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace prize-winning anti-apartheid activist. The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town died last Sunday in a nursing home in the cit...

Murdered footballer Osagi Bascome was remembered yesterday with a minute of silence by fans at one of his former clubs. Darlington FC Women opened their match on Sunday with the tribute to Mr Bascome, who died after he was stabbed on Saturday. The cl...

Renée Ming was asked this week if she thought the spike in road deaths was a national emergency. The Minister of National Security refused to go that far, saying instead that it was an “extreme concern”, which was an oddly precise exercise in parsin...

Police yesterday named a 64-year-old who died after he was thrown into the sea after a motorbike accident. Albert Simmons was seriously injured around 6pm last Sunday when his motorcycle was involved in a collision with a wall near the junction of Li...