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Bermuda Hospitals Board has gone public on its use of a contrast dye which is being investigated in the United States for potential harmful effects. The board, which recently apologised and paid compensation to widower Allan DeSilva for administering...

Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death. Allan DeSilva has battled BHB for three years to ge...

A new book dedicated to providing a factual account of the events surrounding the Island’s deadly riots of 1977 is set to go on sale this month. Drawing on already published works, as well as never before seen documents and first-hand accounts of wh...

Authorities in Bermuda will take over an investigation into the death of a Chilean chef believed to have drowned in the North Atlantic. Favio Ordenes, 26, had been working aboard the ‘Queen Mary 2’ when he went missing on August 16 when the ship was ...

A 56-year-old visitor who died while snorkelling near Hawkins Island on Wednesday has been named by police as Stephen Sakman. A passenger off the Norwegian Breakaway, Mr Sakman had been out on a tour boat when he got into difficulties and was brought...

A tourist died following a snorkelling incident in waters off Hawkins Island yesterday. The man, a 56-year-old passenger on the Norwegian Breakaway, was spotted in an unresponsive state in the water at about 3.45pm. He was lifted to a private vessel,...

A three-week-old baby found unconscious at a property in St David’s in the early hours of yesterday has died. Bermuda Police Service said emergency services attended a report of an incident on Tommy Fox Road at about 3.45am. “Upon police arrival, it ...

Death, admonished the poet John Donne, be not proud. “Mighty and dreadful” though it is considered to be, death’s power is ultimately an illusion. The souls and memories of those it claims live on; the consequences of their actions continue to reverb...

Celebrated artist and former Minister of Parliament Robert Vaughn Barritt has died at the age of 88. Mr Barritt, a former MSA and Saltus student, studied fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, before returning to Bermuda in 1...

An American visitor who died after getting into difficulty snorkelling at the Fairmont Southampton beach property was today named as William Smith, from South Carolina. Mr Smith, aged 62, was pronounced dead at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital follo...

A tireless volunteer who dedicated herself to community groups in Bermuda has died at the age of 95. Barbara Gorham, better known as Lady Gorham, passed away on May 25 at a retirement home in Connecticut, in the United States. Mrs Gorham was born on...

Planners have given the green light for a funeral home to build the Island’s first crematorium. Amis Memorial Chapel’s plans to erect the new facility in St David’s, on vacant land on Wallers Point Road, near the TCD centre, have been given formal ap...