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Replacing the crumbling Swing Bridge with a hydraulic counterpart could provide a “50-year fix”, Craig Cannonier suggested last night at a town hall meeting in St George. “I am very much in favour of a hydraulic bridge,” the Minister of Public Works ...

A tradition dating back to 1849 — the Blessing of the Boats — took place this morning at the Chapel of Ease dock in St George’s Harbour. The Right Rev Nicholas Dill, Bishop of Bermuda, and the Rev David Raths conducted the blessing after being rowed...

The rusted building materials by the St George’s swing bridge are a “precautionary measure” while strengthening work takes place, the Ministry of Public Works has said. A spokeswoman added that although the Bailey bridge materials were originally in...

Building materials intended to fix the St George’s swing bridge have rusted after sitting outside for five months, The Royal Gazette has discovered. Dennis Lister, the Shadow Minister of Public Works, called the matter “symptomatic of the Government’...

A St George’s man has denied carrying a machete along Water Street on Friday and threatening another man’s life. John Dacosta, 58, is alleged to have told Gerald Dillas: “(I) am gonna chop you. I hate you and I wanted to kill you a long time ago. I ...

A betting shop employee has admitted trying to fix a football wager last month to win an $8,156 payout. Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday that Alanae Butterfield, a clerk at Hamilton bookmaker Sea Horses, handed her manager Lee Beauchamp the winnin...

Twelve extra cruise ships are to call on St George from 2017 to 2022 as part of a deal announced yesterday with Norwegian Cruise Line. The agreement with the Bermuda Government includes bringing two catamaran ferries to the island for a run from Dock...

Kind winds ushered the French schooner Etoile into St George’s yesterday, four days ahead of her expected arrival. The eye-catching vessel will be in Bermuda for more than a week as she heads to Saint Pierre and Miquelon for the bicentennial annivers...

A film detailing the connection between Bermuda and Jamestown is set to be screened in St George’s tomorrow. Jane — The Story of Cannibalism in Jamestown and Bermuda’s Rescue details what has become known as the starving time when the Jamestown colon...

A team of volunteers descended on the replica of the Deliverance in St George’s yesterday to continue work on the major restoration project. The group from Markel Bermuda Ltd set about painting, scrubbing, weeding and sprucing up the 50-year-old repl...

A plan to erect a Bailey bridge over the St George’s swing bridge has been abandoned in favour of strengthening the bridge from below. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Public Works said work on a full-scale remediation for the bridge had already beg...

Government has put out a request for proposal for repairs needed at the St George’s Swing Bridge. In a notice appearing on page 26 of yesterday’s edition of The Royal Gazette, the Department of Works and Engineering has called on tenders for “install...