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Somers Ltd has terminated the agreement to sell Bermuda Commercial Bank to Permanent Capital Holdings Ltd after it received better offers. The financial-services holding company said in a filing with the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday: “Somers conf...

One of a pair of hero firefighters who hauled two men out of a water tank after they were rendered unconscious by fumes relived the rescue yesterday. Lionel Furbert, a veteran firefighter and EMT, was the first to go down into the tank after the fir...

A researcher has appealed to a luxury tourism resort to “show good faith” and release documents that could provide vital information about an historic cemetery now in the middle of its golf course. LeYoni Junos said yesterday that the Rosewood Tucker...

A decommissioned subsea cable that once carried internet traffic to Bermuda, and was lying up to three miles below the surface of the ocean, has been recovered and will be recycled. It took three weeks for the remaining submerged section of the Bermu...

When Kristen Carreiro opened clothing store Modblu Boutique on Reid Street, four years ago, there were few rental options in the City of Hamilton. By January it was clear that times had changed. With so many stores closing, many more spaces became av...

A mini-submarine with a camera was used in the latest searches for a missing mother, police said yesterday. Police said that activity in and around Warwick Pond was part of the work to find Chavelle Dillon-Burgess. It has been almost four months sinc...

Organisers of an event to mark Bermuda’s milestone first gay Pride march almost a year ago are unsure if a commemoration planned for this weekend will go ahead. Thousands took to the streets of Hamilton on August 31 last year in an unprecedented show...

Ageing smokestacks at the Belco power station that were blamed for pollution are to be shut down by the end of the year, the company revealed yesterday. Belco said the decommissioning should cut down on discharges that have blighted the lives of neig...

A woman who admitted driving home from a Christmas party under the influence was banned from the roads and fined yesterday. Janae Armstrong, 41, from Warwick, pleaded guilty to the offence at Magistrates’ Court. The court heard that police followed A...

Clyde Best and Calvin “Bummy” Symonds” have been featured in a forthcoming book celebrating the lives, careers, and experiences of English football’s groundbreaking black players. The book entitled Football’s Black Pioneers, The Stories of the First ...

Fidelis has raised more than $1 billion of new capital this year ­— and all of it has already been put to work. The privately held Bermudian reinsurer and specialty insurer doubled its capacity to $2 billion this year, through the raising of $800 mil...

A “young and dumb” teenager involved in a police chase on a stolen bike was shown leniency in court yesterday after he promised to turn his life around. Shae Hassell, 19, was spared a $1,970 fine, and given a two-year conditional discharge and 95 hou...