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Legislation to allow people to withdraw up to $12,000 from their private pension plans was approved by the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a government senator and the junior public works minister, said the legislation was intended to help people w...

A cruise ship passenger caught with $240,000 worth of drugs on a Bermuda-bound vessel was jailed for more than two years yesterday. Margil Mireles, 32, was sentenced to 27 months in the Supreme Court for his involvement in a plot to bring cannabis, l...

A deal to sell a Bermudian-based reinsurer to a French mutual insurance group has been called off. A $9 billion cash agreement to sell PartnerRe to Paris-based Covéa was reached in March, but the French firm said that due to the “significant uncertai...

A war veteran and widow who was inspired by her triumph over illness to do voluntary work abroad has died. Deirdre Chapin was 95. David Thompson, the president of Bermuda Overseas Missions, where she was a volunteer, said that Ms Chapin’s last trip w...

Auto Solutions is enabling prospective customers to “kick the tyres” of new vehicles from their own home as the company grapples with pandemic-related restrictions. Customers can view cars in the lot outside at the Pembroke distributor, but they are ...

Dear Sir, I only wish the Bermuda Government would be as serious about road deaths as it is about Covid-19 deaths. Now would be the time to act while there is little traffic. Time to change the mindset of people on the roads. Why not fine any viola...

All options will be on the table as Bermuda starts to look at ways to kick-start the battered economy, the finance minister revealed last night. Curtis Dickinson said the Economic Advisory Committee, which he will head alongside ten other people from...

A funny thing happened when the House of Assembly resumed this past Friday ... peace broke out. Well, not completely. There was still the usual political snipery. This is politics, after all. But the twin threats that Covid-19 poses to life and liber...

Families stuck at home during Covid-19 restrictions can still swim with the dolphins at tourist attractions in Bermuda and Hawaii on a virtual tour. Last week Dolphin Quest started virtual encounters, which offer visits to its three locations over vi...

The impact of Covid-19 has been harder on the black population than others, the health minister revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson said that 88 per cent, or seven, of the eight deaths linked to the coronavirus were black people. She added: “As we have se...

Rent deferrals have been offered for a second month to businesses in Dockyard because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cancellation of more than 70 cruise ships to Bermuda this year. The West End Development Corporation said it had give...

No more care home cases of Covid-19 have been found after testing across the sector was completed at the weekend, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman added that the results for all 21 homes had now come back and the number of cases ...