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Raynor’s Rubis Service Station, whose founder won a legal battle to open it in an era of segregation, celebrates its 60th anniversary on Saturday. November 10, 1958 was the day Reginald Raynor Sr and wife Lucetta Raynor launched the business, located...

It is now more than a month since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and I am starting to have an appalling suspicion. I don’t have any doubt about what happened: the plot to lure him to the Saudi consulate; the savage attack by hea...

A man died after he fell in the water while he fished off North Shore Road yesterday. The 53-year-old was spotted floating face down in the sea near the Railway Trail in Hamilton Parish. Firefighters pulled him from the water at about 11am and rushed...

The Bermuda Business Development Agency had a direct economic impact on the island’s economy of $26.3 million in 2017, according to a PwC independent impact study commissioned by the public-private agency. Of that amount, an estimated $23.5 million w...

A children’s litigation guardian has asked for $800,000 as payment for her services, but estimated the real cost for four years of work at about $2.8 million. Tiffanne Thomas, an independent social worker, was told by the Premier’s Chief of Staff thi...

Born in Trinidad, Daryl Cox can’t remember a year without carnival. In his native Port of Spain, the two-day festival is filled with huge musical performances, vibrant colours and massive crowds; multiple parties are held in the lead-up to the main e...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Progressive Labour Party’s “date with destiny” election victory. The party’s first triumph at the polls brought the party in from the cold of 35 years in Opposition and gave Bermuda an alternative government for t...

Bermudian Stacee Smith has been chosen as the first recipient of Walkers Bermuda’s pupillage programme. A past student at Saltus Grammar School and the University of Ottawa, Ms Smith completed a law degree at Queen Mary’s University in London, Englan...

Garbage collection dates have been announced for the Remembrance Day holiday. Trash that would normally be picked up on Monday will, instead, be collected two days early tomorrow. This includes Sandys, and Southampton West, up to and including Lighth...

Proposed rules to crack down on loan sharks are understood to have been revised after public consultation. The Debt Collection Act 2018 will be tabled in Parliament today after an initial draft was reworked to tackle concerns raised by lawyers, busin...

The Government will unveil a “college promise” programme in its second Throne Speech this morning. An excerpt from the speech, released last night, revealed the merit-based programme would offer Bermuda College scholarships to public-school students ...

The driver of a motorboat was fined $1,300 after he admitted giving police a false name and refusing to take a breath test. Jamal Simmons, 38, was also fined $200 after he pleaded guilty to the creation of wake in a five-knot no-wake zone. But he den...