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The biggest threats to Bermuda are an ageing population combined with a decline in the workforce, the Government warned last night. A pre-Budget report said that the crisis had also led to underfunded public sector pension funds and an escalation in ...

Hollywood superstar Michael Douglas has backed part-time Bermuda resident Michael Bloomberg in his bid to become the next president of the United States. Mr Douglas, 75, a Bermudian whose mother was born into a prominent family, announced his suppor...

A municipal election to fill a vacant seat in St George has been postponed to next month because of a lack of candidates. The election, to replace Lloyd Van Putten, will be held on February 27, with nomination day scheduled to take place on February ...

The Bermuda Post Office yesterday reminded the public that payment for post boxes was due on January 1. A government spokeswoman apologised for the delay in issuing individual notices and said bills would go out “within the next week”. She added: “...

Some 25 years ago, a debate was raging in America about the power of words. The argument was this: do words matter? William Raspberry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The Washington Post whose articles occasionally appeared in The Royal Gazet...

A legal battle over a failed hotel project has returned to court — with the future of a Hamilton car park at stake. Mexico Infrastructure Finance LLC, the company that provided a loan for construction of the hotel, has asked the Supreme Court to uph...

Dramatic changes to the Bermuda National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pension) Act 1998, the contributory benefit pension plan designed for all eligible employees in the private sector workforce, were announced by the Bermuda Government last month. A...

The owners of a food truck have applied for permission to set up shop on a gap site on Front Street in Hamilton. A planning application, submitted in December by Generosas, proposed an outdoor food court at 81 Front Street featuring the Generosa’s fo...

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.” — Margaret Thatcher I find it amusing and interesting, yet not surpris...

“Party like a Russian — end of discussion,” go the lyrics to a song Robbie Williams was asked not to sing at the opening of the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting out the line: just five days after he announced a maj...

A former premier has launched a legal action against the Office of the Attorney-General over allegations of corruption. Ewart Brown claimed that the Attorney-General — then Trevor Moniz — accused him and his two clinics of illegal behaviour in their ...

An increase in flu cases has sparked a “medium alert” from health watchdogs. The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit at the Ministry of Health issued the warning after a rise in influenza and fever and respiratory symptoms. A spokeswoman for the minis...