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Last week, the Government rushed legislation titled the Child Safeguarding Bill 2019 through the Senate, despite Opposition protests as to the unnecessary disregarding of due process. Only senators were invited to a briefing session less than 48 hou...

An update on work to fill vacant engineer posts in the Ministry of Public Works was provided by its minister today. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch highlighted 20 employees, including four summer students. Colonel Burch said that the employees were ...

The U.S. Consulate General Hamilton hosted a donation ceremony at the L.F. Wade International Airport on July 25. The Consulate, through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), presented the Bermuda Police Service, Royal Bermuda Regiment, and t...

It was a crushingly hot afternoon. My husband Bill and I were walking with our Swiss friends, Nika and Rubik. It was June, and Europe was in the midst of a heatwave. The temperature in Zurich, the city we were visiting, was over 100 degrees. As we st...

When will the Premier publicly censure Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch over a series of offensive remarks that undermine the status of a Cabinet minister? Colonel Burch has dismayed us all with his regular use of misogynistic remarks such as telling m...

A doorman who is known by tourists from all over the world will continue to greet guests at the hotel where he worked. For a portrait of George Jones, nicknamed “Smiler” for his cheerful grin, now has pride of place at the Elbow Beach Resort and Spa....

The Child Safeguarding Bill is a vital leap forward for children’s rights and child protection in Bermuda. First, we at the Coalition for the Protection of Children want to commend the Government for making these historic and necessary changes for ch...

When it comes to saving, are you doing the hokey pokey or the cupid shuffle? Depending on your current age and interests, having read the above and the title of this article you might assume that you have some idea what this article is going to be a...

A member of Bermuda’s Youth Parliament beat an international field to win top honours at a Caribbean competition. Halle Teart, an 18-year-old sociology and Africana studies student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, came first in a debate on t...

Better communication among government departments, police and other agencies could help to prevent vulnerable children from “falling through the cracks”, a child protection group said yesterday. The Coalition for the Protection of Children added that...

Louise Jones is happiest when she’s outside — digging in the garden, painting things around the yard. She starts every morning with a swim near her Pembroke home accompanied by her Labrador Retriever. Afterward, while Sandy has a sniff along the bea...

The recent decision by John Rankin, the Governor — at the request of David Burt, the Premier — to give the Reverend Charles Vinton Monk a full pardon for his conviction for criminal libel rights an historic wrong and sets an important precedent for t...