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Delays in garbage collection in the West End were signalled yesterday because of a “disruption in the labour force” over Covid-19 health regulations. A spokesman for the public works ministry said there were delays to trash pickups yesterday and that...

Bermuda made the perfect start to their Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship Qualifying campaign last night with an emphatic 5-0 victory over US Virgin Islands at the Ergilio Hato Stadium in Curaçao. Naquita Robinson’s team, who dominated the group...

In New York on Friday, Melanie Eddy will show her jewellery at a Sotheby’s exhibit highlighting prominent Black designers from around the world. The event was curated by Melanie Grant who directs luxury content for 1843, The Economist’s lifestyle ...

Upon the recent anniversary of 9/11 a few days ago, I sat down to place my thoughts on paper. We can all recall our own 9/11 stories and moments — those of us who were counted among the living then and old enough to discern what was happening before ...

A major institutional shareholder in Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings Ltd has called on its board of directors to commence a strategic alternatives process and objectively consider a sale of the full company. In a letter sent to the Ar...

“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” Sir Isaac Newton Inertia. We all feel it – that mind-numbing heaviness that settles...

How can nations engage with failed states where governmental functions have become paralysed and countries that have fallen into civil war, and prevent them from becoming hotbeds of terrorism? Based on the lessons learnt from the 20-year “war on terr...

With its withdrawal from Afghanistan complete, the United States is left trying to remember why it invaded the country in 2001, and to wonder what two decades of war accomplished. Ostensibly the key to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the US occupation...

Inland flooding and supply chain disruption are driving up insured loss estimates for Hurricane Ida. An updated assessment from extreme event modelling firm AIR Worldwide last night said insured losses could be from $20 billion to $30 billion. AIR no...

John Burnham and Peter Rugg consolidated their lead in the standings on day two of the 2021 International One Design World Championship in the Great Sound yesterday. The defending champions posted a 1-4 record on the day to stretch their advantage at...

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club will be represented at the prestigious Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, which gets under way today in Newport, Rhode Island. The local team is headed up by helmsman James Macdonald, the honorary RBYC secretary,...

Ten infrastructure projects awarded under Government’s short-term economic stimulus programme are complete while a further 11 are ongoing, the House of Assembly has been told. Wayne Furbert, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said awards to compani...