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Dear Sir, What a welcome sight to open today’s newspaper (July 15) and see the letter from Femi Bada. I have felt like a voice in the wilderness with my comments on the ever-growing powers of the Bermuda Health Council, whom I have accused of empire...

Dear Sir, A ruptured appendix gave me an unplanned opportunity to see the new hospital from the inside. I was very impressed. From admittance through operation and aftercare to release five days later, I could not have been treated better. The new fa...

First there was the ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786; climbs followed in Asia and South America. As explorers began to challenge the higher parts of the Earth, the high-altitude environment occasionally proved unexpectedly fatal. Deaths in otherwise hea...

Francesco Bruni will make his Artemis Racing debut as helmsmen at this weekend’s Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Portsmouth. The former Luna Rossa sailor is replacing Nathan Outteridge, the Artemis skipper, who is in Brazil making his fin...

Belco reported that some 6,000 residents were without power shortly after 1pm yesterday but it was restored just after 2.30pm. The outage followed a load shed caused by the shutdown of an engine. It was the second time within 24 hours that homes had ...

The Premier is in the Turks and Caicos Islands this week for the UK Overseas Territories Heads of Government Pre-Joint Ministerial Council meeting. As well as taking part in discussions about the British referendum on the European Union, Michael Dunk...

The America’s Cup Endeavour Programme has managed to train close to 1,000 M1 students over the past school year with special two-week camps operating both in East and West. The students who took part in the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, a...

Bermuda must strengthen its rules on enforcement and investor protection before it can become eligible for its European Union funds “passport”. That is the view of the European Securities and Markets Authority, which was considering the island’s appl...

Insurance firm Argus rose 15 cents, or 3.8 per cent, on The Royal Gazette/BSX Index. The move came after 1,500 Argus shares changed hands in the sole trading of the day. The Royal Gazette/BSX Index closed up three points, or 0.25 per cent, at 1,206.7...

Team Bermuda debaters have travelled to Stuttgart for the World Schools Debate Championships, which begin tomorrow. The team are Megan Sutcliffe, the captain who attends Bermuda High School, Bathsheba Jones, of CedarBridge Academy, and Asha Symons, ...

Horseshoe Bay was closed to the public yesterday after onshore wind conditions caused an influx of Portuguese man-of-war. The beach, popular with tourists, was closed at 12.53pm. “Lifeguards have hoisted a purple flag at the tower indicating the pr...

Bermuda has bid farewell to Johnny Barnes with a regal funeral in tribute to “Mr Happy”, an ambassador for the island known worldwide. Bermuda Institute schoolchildren lined roadsides around his customary place at Crow Lane to cheer his funeral proce...