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Teenage debaters will be pitted against former world champions at the end of a two-week boot camp designed to hone their skills. Three members of Bermuda’s national debate team will take part in the match next week when they will face the 2016 world-...

The public works minister told MPs yesterday that he will not release a report into the finances of a failed sports centre. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch was speaking after Gitanjali Gutierrez, the Information Commissioner, ordered the Government to...

The decision to hold fortnightly House of Assembly meetings last month was not discussed with the Opposition, its head said yesterday. Craig Cannonier, the leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, said there had been no dialogue about reducing the number ...

The violent suppression ten years ago on July 5 of a protest march in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in western China, was a pivotal moment in the struggle of the Uighur people to defend their rights. For the Uighurs, th...

A government farm scheme designed to deter young people from a life of crime is expected to be launched soon. The Redemption Farm scheme will include employment training, vocational skills and workshops for at-risk men and women who it was claimed wi...

Senior civil servant Major Marc Telemaque asked immigration officials to find a way for Bermuda to issue travel documents to the four refugee Uighurs, but was rebuffed. Major Telemaque sent a “high importance” e-mail in January 2011, the day before h...

Justice was served! Our hearts go out to this precious child who was so courageous and spoke her truth in a court environment that could be classified as intimidating, scary and which I feel is inhumane. I applaud her family and advocates, who not o...

Sandra Warner didn’t understand why Amir X was asking her to model for his show. Granted, the fashion designer was her cousin but ... she was 70 — and had never been on the runway before. “I said: ‘Me? You got old people in your fashion show?’ He s...

It was Shakespeare who first observed “all the world’s a stage” in his play As You Like It. I wonder what he would have made of Twitter and other social media platforms? Would he have written sonnets to be performed for Facebook Live, or contented h...

A dossier of official correspondence about the Uighurs and their relatives has been released by the Government, ten years after the four men came to the island from Guantánamo Bay at the invitation of Ewart Brown. The e-mails reveal how Bermuda’s top...

A lawyer for Bermuda’s four Uighurs has raised concerns after the Government mistakenly released highly confidential records about the men’s relatives under public access to information. The Department of Immigration initially provided only eight rec...

The Court of Appeal has released its reasons for a decision to uphold an order that barred two lawyers from representing the patients of Ewart Brown. Sir Christopher Clarke, the President of the Court of Appeal, said in a written judgment: “It was, i...