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More taxis and minibuses could soon be on Bermuda’s roads after the Minister of Tourism and Transport announced plans to increase services yesterday. Zane DeSilva said 20 taxi permits will be offered for new cab owners who will cover late afternoon a...

Because of road closures to facilitate the Bermuda Day Marathon and Parade festivities, to be held tomorrow, the Department of Public Transportation will be rerouting scheduled bus routes for the day. The rerouted bus routes are as follows. • Route...

A Bermudian woman is second in command on a sail training ship on the last leg of a round-the-world trip. Erin Greig is the chief mate on the Picton Castle, which had docked in Bermuda before it completes its voyage with a return to its home port of ...

Road training should be mandatory for all new road users and speed cameras could be introduced, the transport minister has said. Zane DeSilva added that the training programme Project Ride, or a similar programme, should be compulsory for all riders...

Repairs to a cruise ship terminal in Dockyard were completed ahead of schedule, the House of Assembly said yesterday. King’s Wharf was refurbished before the April 10 deadline that marked the start of the cruise ship season. Failure to finish on time...

The introduction of speed cameras and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels were among the recommendations in a Green Paper on Transportation tabled yesterday in the House of Assembly. Zane DeSilva, the transport minister, said other suggestions inc...

Some entrepreneurs sell goods they wouldn’t be caught dead using themselves, but not Jody Place. Three years ago the owner of Nakada Electric Bikes gave up driving his company van to get around on an electric bike instead. “If I need something for t...

Insurance industry veteran Brian Duperreault has been made the honorary director of the charity that provides transport for the elderly and disabled. Mr Duperreault, the chief executive officer of global insurance firm AIG, was given the accolade by ...

Bermuda’s public bus system experienced a “learning curve” over its problems getting a new schedule up and running, the transport minister said. Zane DeSilva told MPs in the House on Friday that the decision to revert to the old bus schedule “was no...

A woman said she was traumatised after a retired police officer turned taxi driver refused to let her out of his cab and later assaulted her. Judith Wadson, 64, said: “I’m glad it’s behind me, totally behind me. “It was like being in a nightmare. I w...

As the Bermuda Electric Light Company (BELCO) prepares to receive new generators for its North Power Station (NPS), the Company today notified the public about traffic delays that will be necessary for the engines’ transportation. Canal Road will be...

At least eight people could have died in incidents at sea last year if rescue missions had not been mounted, it has been revealed. The rescues were among 405 “incidents of concern” logged by the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre and were highlighte...