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Hundreds of musicians from around the world are tuning up for Bermuda’s biggest showcase of military music to celebrate the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s golden anniversary. Bands from Bermuda, Britain, Canada, Jamaica and the United States will join forc...

The Transport Control Department will close at 3.45pm today, the Bermuda Government has announced. All administrative services will still be available until 4.45pm. In a statement, Government said that online re-licensing and appointment booking is a...

Plans to build a new chapel hamlet on the Morgan’s Point property have been given the go-ahead by planners. The Development Applications Board recommended that the development, which was proposed by Brian and Nancy Duperreault, be given approval last...

Michael Dunkley, Governor George Fergusson and other dignitaries were taken on a “walk and talk” in North Hamilton this month, an event organised by the Young Progressives. The group took its guests to the area to meet residents and business owners. ...

A developer’s last-ditch attempt to build a two-storey car park with more than 150 spaces in west Hamilton has been thwarted by the minister in charge of planning. Senator Michael Fahy dismissed an appeal by West Hamilton Ltd after the Development Ap...

This week’s column is a farce, Mr Editor; although, who knows, maybe in the eyes of some, all of my columns are. So be it. There will always be a disagreement on matters of opinion and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, it is downright healthy. As one ...

“The phrase ‘All politics is local’ is used commonly in American politics. Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is most closely associated with this phrase, which encapsulates the principle that a politician’s success is tied directly to the pers...

Dear Sir, Forget all the recent toing and froing over the Ombudsman. I know a little something about this subject and the only germane question in the controversy is whether the Ombudsman “overreached” her authority in conducting an investigation in...

Unionised staff at the Department of Marine and Ports have opted to “work to rule”, a tactic in which minimum contracted duties are performed, as their rift with management continues over the director of the department. In a meeting scheduled for 10a...

Bermuda’s young people have the potential to play a major role in local politics, a Progressive Labour Party open forum was told this week. Addressing more than 200 people at the Bermuda Industrial Union Sweeting-Ball Memorial Hall on Monday, 23-year...

Dear Sir, Kenneth Bascome is reported as having said that God is part-Bermudian because so often we have been spared the most destructive aspects of the storms. I would not be so presumptuous as to assume the reason for our past good fortune or what...

All too often Bermuda’s politicians and their surrogates like to style themselves as the shark-oil barometers of the public mood. But, just as often, they are actually attempting to manipulate popular sentiment rather than simply measure and mirror i...