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The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance is calling on anyone who sees intoxicated friends attempting to drive home after a night out to stop them. Susan Jackson, the shadow transport minister, made the appeal in the run-up to Christmas — a time when “li...

A union leader yesterday claimed that Bermudians should be alarmed because industrial relations had hit rock bottom. Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, said: “Bermuda should be very concerned right now that we’ve hit an all...

A commencement ceremony was held for the latest student cohort of a maritime career programme. The Endeavour Maritime Springboard Programme, which runs in partnership with the Bermuda College’s Professional and Career Education division (Pace), cele...

A proposal to boost insurance payouts for road accidents have been put before Parliament. The legislation, an update to a law passed in the 1940s, seeks to increase insurer liability for anyone travelling in a car or “a public carriage”. The insurer ...

A new fleet of electric buses will cost less than half the price of older diesel vehicles, the transport minister told the House of Assembly yesterday morning. Lawrence Scott said 30 buses, built by the Golden Dragon Bus Company in China at a cost of...

Roadside breath test checkpoints will be set up across four parishes for a week over the Christmas period. A Government notice warned that road blocks would be operated by police every day from December 20 to Boxing Day. The checkpoints will all be ...

Roadside breath-test checkpoints set up without warning have been ruled out by the transport minister. Lawrence Scott said he did not recall a conversation at a meeting with former Commissioner of Police Steven Corbishley about the possibility of ab...

A discount scheme will offer money off fuel for members of Age Concern every Tuesday for 12 weeks. The charity has teamed up with Sol Petroleum for the annual event. Age Concern members will get 10 per cent off fuel from all Sol gas stations across t...

The Canal Street entrance to Bull’s Head car park has been closed off to allow paving work to be carried out. But motorists can still access the car park from the Elliot Street entrance. Cars were backed up this morning as motorists tried to enter th...

The island will hold a major sailing event next year in a bid to attract more superyachts to the island. Details of the event have yet to be announced, but a spokeswoman for the Bermuda Tourism Authority said superyachts that traditionally “migrated...

The taxi trade faces “unprecedented challenges” from the damage caused by Covid-19 and the increased cost of doing business, industry representatives have warned. The Bermuda Taxi Operators Association’s executive committee said that programmes intro...

Almost $8.5 million was handed over by the Government to Skyport in the latest minimum revenue guarantee payout, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, told MPs that airport operator Skyport gave the Bermud...