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David Burt apologised to the public for overseeing an $800,000 loan from the public purse to an American music promoter who disappeared without paying it back. The Premier issued a lengthy statement on Facebook on September 24 – the day after The Roy...

Although the Premier’s decision to call a General Election midway through a parliamentary term had come as a surprise, the result of that contest was probably never in doubt. On October 1, Bermudians went to the polls and gave David Burt one of the b...

The Bermuda Government paid out $11 million to cover redundancy payments to workers left unemployed by the closure of the Fairmont Southampton. The hotel’s owner, Gencom, promised to reimburse the Government and move forward with renovations at the l...

Renewed outbreaks of the coronavirus cast a pall over the final month of 2020, when the island lost its tenth person to the pandemic – the first death since May. December brought a quiet festive season after a jump in coronavirus numbers sparked a re...

The year 2020 started promisingly enough with much to look forward to, including the 49th Carifta Games, which were set to take place in Bermuda for a fifth time in April. It began with Southampton Rangers beating Devonshire Cougars 1-0 in the Friend...

No one in the business world could have foreseen the upheaval that 2020 would unleash on the Bermuda economy. The year was characterised by business closures, layoffs and redundancies on a scale the island has not seen in modern times. It was a year ...

The most improbable of presidents, Donald Trump reshaped the office and shattered its centuries-old norms and traditions while dominating the national discourse like no one before. Trump, governing by whim and tweet, deepened the nation’s racial and ...

Not since the Second World War has a single phenomenon dominated the news worldwide as the Covid-19 pandemic has in 2020. In the United States, a tumultuous presidential election and a wave of protests over racial injustice also drew relentless cover...

By March 23, Apple had lost $435 billion in market value in about five weeks and many of its retail outlets were shut as the virus pandemic walloped the global economy and stock markets. Meanwhile, a report issued by the National Bureau of Economic R...

When Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, claimed defiantly in February that the greatest show on earth would go ahead in spite of a looming pandemic, few realised what wishful thinking that was. Weeks later, with the n...

Con men have claimed to be consumer affairs officers as part of a fraud aimed at shops, it was announced tonight. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said: “There apparently are some members of the public who are going around to retail establ...

Two Bermudian sisters are urging residents to unite in an island-wide, celebration from the comfort and safety of their homes on New Year’s Eve. Kathi and Harmony DeCouto said that while Covid-19 restrictions have limited the number of people who ca...