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Cruise ship casinos may be able to operate 24 hours a day while berthed in Bermuda under new legislation. Casinos on ships can only open between 9pm and 5am in Bermuda’s waters at present. But cruise operators would be allowed to apply for an extensi...

The Premier today denied claims that a lack of major new programmes in the Throne Speech meant the Government was running out of imagination and energy. David Burt was speaking after the One Bermuda Alliance attacked the legislative programme as bein...

A blueprint to boost the economy in ailing St George will be considered, the Government revealed in the Throne Speech yesterday. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, who delivered the speech on behalf of the Government, said the strategic plan would be “infor...

The Throne Speech was as heavy on the rhetoric of solidarity as it was light on the details of recovery. It took Rena Lalgie, the Governor, 8,241 words to say not very much at all. Not her fault as, apart from a few thoughts of her own tacked on at t...

Jaquan Burrows has been selected by the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club as a trainee manager in the rooms division of the hotel’s leadership development programme. During the 18-month initiative, Mr Burrows will spend time with each team that contribu...

Executive lounges in the LF Wade International Airport’s departures area have officially opened, Bermuda Skyport announced. TAV Operation Services Ltd and Graycliff Divans Bermuda Ltd have formed a joint venture – TAV-GD Operation Services Ltd – to o...

Bermuda is on a “glide path” to a small budget surplus by 2023-24, the finance minister said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson added the country’s last round of borrowing was calculated to last until that financial year. Mr Dickinson said: “We have borrowe...

An Opposition MP demanded answers from the Government yesterday on the future of a major hotel. Craig Cannonier, the shadow tourism minister, said the Government had a duty to reveal if the shuttered Elbow Beach hotel was on the market – and what act...

The future of the Elbow Beach resort is in question after reports that the owners have tried to sell the hotel. The Paget property shut up shop in early 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic and was expected to re-open at the start of this year. But ...

An American healthcare worker said he was delighted to be on the island after he endured mountainous waves on a solo voyage in a tiny boat from New York. Anthony Lisske, 49, told The Royal Gazette yesterday that he had picked a good weather window fo...

Bermuda is set to lose its direct air service to Boston, a major US gateway city, when JetBlue airlines cuts its service at the end of this month. The quick flight to Boston is a popular link for Bermudian students in the US as well as for medical tr...

Opening the morning newspaper seeing on one hand the Fairmont Southampton Princess saga, paralleled with $70 million of commercial real estate up for sale in Hamilton, was a lot for a pair of eyes to absorb. To think 33 commercial properties are sell...