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A kneejerk reaction to criticism by community activists sparked a government update on work to combat gangs, an anti-violence campaigner claimed yesterday. Desmond Crockwell, chief editor of anti-violence magazine Visionz, said that the decision by W...

Climate change is having a growing impact on insurers’ bottom lines. That is the view of German reinsurance giant Munich Re, which highlights an increasing incidence of costly forest fires as a symptom of global warming. In its global catastrophe rep...

You might say a person is fundamentally healthy so long as you cannot yet say what will cause his death. Likewise, an economic recovery is healthy if it is not clear what will cause the next recession. By this standard, the recovery from the 2008 fin...

If the Minister of Education had listened to and fully engaged with our principals, teachers, parents and the Bermuda Union of Teachers in the first instance, the challenges we are seeing in education could have been avoided. All those stakeholders,...

A 15-year-old who died on Monday was named yesterday by police as Kiara Paiva. The girl was found unconscious by a family member at her home in My Lord’s Bay Road, Hamilton Parish, at about 11.55am. Police said life-saving efforts took place at the ...

Bermudian reinsurers are renowned for providing protection for when the wind blows — but Nephila Capital has struck a deal to provide coverage for when the wind does not blow at all. Nephila, the world’s largest manager of insurance-linked securities...

If you’re a socially engaged consumer, the past year of pop culture may have left you despairing over how to spend your money ethically. Do you forswear Yeezys to protest Kanye West’s dalliance with President Donald Trump? Did you refuse to watch Cam...

Butterfield Bank spent more than $8.25 million buying back its own shares during December. The bank revealed the buybacks in a filing with the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Butterfield said it repurchased 254,212 shares for treasury at an average price of ...

A 69-year-old man denied child-pornography charges in Supreme Court yesterday. The man, from Pembroke, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, faced two charges of accessing hundreds of videos and photographs. It is alleged the man used a peer-to...

Bermuda’s former prison is to be reborn as a history research centre, the executive director of the National Museum of Bermuda said yesterday. Elena Strong said the Casemates buildings in Dockyard would be used to focus on “the Atlantic World from 14...

Wendell Smith, one of the island’s most respected coaches, has confirmed he is not interested in replacing brother Clay as the next Bermuda cricket coach. Smith, who held the post for a few months in early 2005 before assisting Gus Logie in guiding t...

A 39-year-old woman was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday after she admitted a New Year’s Day drink-driving charge. Magistrates’ Court heard that Dawn Trott, from Paget, was found to be almost double the legal alcohol limit. Trott was s...