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The Hamilton location of bookmakers GameTime has closed. Customers arriving at the betting shop in The Emporium building on Front Street are met with a sign on the door that reads: “All GameTime Hamilton customers may now place their wages (sic) at S...

An investigation into delays in the payment of compensation to victims of crime is at the “fact-finding stage”, it has been revealed. Victoria Pearman, the Ombudsman, said “that the potential harm of maladministration at the Criminal Injuries Compens...

A six-man Wage Commission will include two ex officio members from the ministries responsible for labour and finance. The news came as legislation to set up the commission was tabled on Friday in the House of Assembly. Its main functions under the Em...

This is the last of a four-part series looking into health policy under the Progressive Labour Party Universal healthcare in many countries has been achieved by a mixed model of funding. General taxation revenue is the primary source of funding, but...

Local charities have reaped a surprise bonus from this year’s donations from the Bermuda End-to-End event. Four good causes were expected to get $30,000 each from the annual walk — but the figure was boosted to $45,000 apiece because of the high leve...

Do you have a wellness box in your house? What is a wellness box and why would you want one? Good question. I just invented the idea — or least it appears I might have. Let me explain. This past spring, the strong healthy girl who almost never gets...

Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow. “Gobsmacked” was how one Youngstown reader described her horrified reaction to the surprise announcement, just days before, that the city’s 150-year-old da...

The government body set up to compensate victims of crime has failed to reveal the size of its “serious backlog” of cases under public access to information. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board told the Court of Appeal last November that it had ...

A World Bank report on waste management has found that Bermuda produces more waste per head than any other country. Bermuda topped the world in per capita waste creation, with an estimated 4.56 kilograms a person every day. But those figures were roo...

Financial technology services have become mainstream and can be expected to proliferate and mature in the coming years. Research by EY shows that money transfer and payments were the most commonly used fintech services, with others including savings ...

Rugby sevens legend Ben Gollings is adamant the future of the format in Bermuda is extremely bright despite watching their dreams of competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo dashed. The former England player, who became the first rugby sevens pla...

Progressive Labour Party backbenchers have called for a fresh discussion on independence. Walton Brown said the need for a debate had become more important because the British Government had forced social and financial policies on Bermuda. He told th...