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LeiLanni Nesbeth, the Bermuda Under-17 forward, has verbally committed to Florida State University as she moves a step closer to fulfilling her dream of playing for a major university. The former Saltus Grammar School student will now benefit from kn...

A 38-year-old man was fined $600 this morning for drink driving. Paulo Alvernaz Garcia pleaded guilty to providing a sample of breath above the legal limit. Magistrates’ Court heard that Garcia was stopped after failing to stop at a traffic sign on...

A two-day international medical summit featuring world-class specialists started at the Fairmont Southampton today. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, met with some of the leading cancer doctors participating in the Pink and Teal Conference on Breas...

Noah Browne and Micah Franklin, Bermuda’s leading male squash players, provided a pair of eye-catching performances at the World Class Squash exhibition event at the Bermuda Squash Racquets Association last weekend. Browne, the national champion, wen...

Chateauguay, Quebec, is the last place you would expect to find a Bermudian journalist, let alone one who has blazed quite a few trails during a distinguished career in Canada. But Ernest Scott Tucker has lived in the Montreal suburb for nearly 50 ye...

The WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival draws filmmakers from Italy to Canada to China. Making her way across the floor to congratulate someone from England, Susanne Notman was surprised to hear them announce Bermuda. Her screenplay, Our O...

Angry parents have gone public with criticism over management of an island primary school for the second time. A statement issued yesterday by an anonymous group of parents from Elliot Primary School said there had been a decline in “school spirit, a...

Special Olympics Bermuda is holding a tag day today and is hoping to take a team of about 18 athletes to the Summer Games, that will be held in Dubai from March 14 to 19, 2019. Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organisation for children ...

The family of a young woman who took her own life are to take part in a charity walk in America at the weekend to raise funds for suicide prevention. Susan Wakefield and Chris Gibbons, parents of Jessica Gibbons, who was 25 when she died, will co-cap...

German insurance giant Allianz has been eyeing two Bermuda insurers as potential takeover targets after it lost out on a deal to acquire XL Group Ltd, according to an international business news service. Bloomberg News reported that Argo Group Intern...

A water safety organisation board has not met for almost a year, an insider said yesterday. A source said the Bermuda Water Safety Council was in limbo as a result. The source, who asked not to be named, added: “The fact is that there is no presenc...

I wanted to write a follow-up to my previous opinion, titled “The campaign for equality”, which was published on May 7 of this year. A comment was made that I felt needed answering in greater detail. The comment was this: “Why is the United Nations a...