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April 28, 2014 Dear Sir, I feel that the public should not be misled by the comments made by the Captain of Powerful and the chief engineer for Marine and Ports. Firstly, Lloyds is not the shipyard that carried out the repairs, Lloyds is the Classifi...

Government has responded to claims made by a tugboat engineer who labelled a recent $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.” Cornell Simmons, Chief Engineer, raised his concerns over the grow...

A $1.5 million Lloyd’s Register survey of the tugboat Powerful has been labelled “a lot of money” and “a lot of waste.” Chief engineer Cornell Simmons said the $1.5 million figure is “still up in the air” after he and his crew have spent the past eig...

St George’s will lose its swing bridge for the coming fiscal year in a bid to accrue savings. Practical as well as economic considerations affected the decision, according to Public Works Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin. The bridge, at Ferry Reach, ...

Government is renting out a slipway in Dockyard to private vessel owners, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Marine and Ports workers complained last week after being asked to bring a private vessel onto a Government slip during regular working hours, wit...

A lightning strike and hull corrosion on the tugboat Powerful have ended up costing Government more than $1m in unexpected repairs. A mandatory Lloyd’s Register of Shipping out-of-water survey of the tug should have cost somewhere around $300,000, ac...

The Bermuda Water Safety Council will next month host a safety seminar and cruise to help local boaters stay up to date on safety concerns. Along with safety talks at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, the October 20 event will include a two-hour cruise o...