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Ewart Brown urged health minister Kim Wilson to “politically interfere” to ensure his clinics did not suffer financially in the wake of a One Bermuda Alliance government decision to slash fees for medical scans. The doctor and former premier e-mailed...

A seven-month e-mail trail details the controversy that led to the Bermuda Government’s decision to offer compensation to medical services that were affected hit by a significant cut in fees for high-tech scans. “It would appear that the [health] co...

Labour Day should honour progress made in workers’ rights, but also encourage more advances in the future, a trade union leader said yesterday. Jason Hayward, president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, added the public should take time to mark i...

The oldest harbour seal at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo has died at the age of 35. A Bermuda Zoological Society spokeswoman said the seal, named Charlotte, died of complications from cancer last Thursday. The spokeswoman for the Flatts attrac...

Trené Todd was nervous getting on the plane to Bermuda. It was her first time visiting her father’s birthplace, and she didn’t want to stick out. “My aunt Nancy Cruz warned me to wear something red and blue,” said the 26-year-old, who arrived just be...

The full details of a $600,000 payout to former premier Ewart Brown from the public purse late last year will remain under wraps. The Ministry of Health refused a public access to information request from The Royal Gazette to release the financial ag...

Bernard Fox, a “free-spirited warrior of St David’s” who honoured his Pequot tribe heritage with the name Chief Running Water, has died at the age of 86. His sister, Ronnie Chameau, said her brother was “liked by all” in St David’s, where he repaired...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch has signed the Condolence Book to C.V. “Jim” Woolridge. Colonel Burch, the public works minister and Acting Premier, visited the Cabinet Office where the book is available from 10am until 4pm until next Wednesday. The B...

C.V. “Jim” Woolridge, one of the leading figures of the former United Bermuda Party and a cricket commentator famed as the “Voice of Summer”, died yesterday at the age of 92. The long-serving former minister of tourism, who was MP for Smith’s South, ...

Former Progressive Labour Party leader Marc Bean has urged the Government to encourage entrepreneurs through tax cuts and less red tape. Mr Bean also called for the Government to lower its spending through a reduction in the size of the Civil Service...

C.V. “Jim” Woolridge was most famous for his many years as tourism minister. A man of strong views, he said in his memoirs, The House that Jack Built, that he was “hired, fired, rehired, refired and then rehired again” from the ministry for standing ...

CV “Jim” Woolridge was born in 1926 in Flatts as one of ten children. He wrote in his memoirs that, appropriately given his later role as cricket’s Voice of Summer, that he “practically grew up on Flatts cricket field”. Cricket was a lifelong passion...