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Eyewitnesses described several lucky escapes after a bus carrying nine nursery schoolchildren smashed into parked cars on East Broadway before ploughing into a utility pole. Eight people were injured, including two visitors and a few children. None w...

An appeal against conviction by sex offender Milton Richardson has been rejected, and the Crown continues to challenge the reduction of his original sentence from 18 months to one year. While it appeared to be in doubt whether Richardson, a former yo...

The Bermuda Government has not taken a definite stance on the disputed issue of medical precertification, but the threat of its introduction has reined in the overuse of expensive medical tests. Opposition leader Marc Bean asked Health Minister Jeann...

The Island’s waste recycling service will continue “as far as we know”, according to Waste Management’s education and enforcement officer, Vanese Gordon. But recycling is doomed to remain a money-losing enterprise, especially for an Island jurisdicti...

Bus drivers, faced with a proposal to cut down on their overtime, fear that such reductions are being considered “across the whole of Government”. Chris Furbert, president of the Bermuda Industrial Union, made the remark after a meeting of unionised ...

Taking pictures within the walls of Parliament is against the law, Speaker of the House Randy Horton said yesterday, after telling legislators he had spotted a photo online that had been taken from the gallery. Mr Horton was referring to a shot circu...

A drastic overrun on the allocated budget for overtime in public transport has led to the severe disruption in bus routes, according to Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert. A group of unionised drivers and mechanics met for nearly two ho...

For Tash Pethick, this Friday’s cancer fundraiser for St Baldrick’s carries a sense of personal mission. Ms Pethick has already raised nearly $10,000 for the St Baldrick’s charity cause — inspired by a close friend’s battle with stage two breast canc...

Government’s pension fund for civil servants remains under review, but its cost of living adjustment, suspended last year, will stay off the table “until further notice”. Presenting the actuarial report into the Public Service Superannuation Fund (PS...

Elderly patients are being abandoned at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, causing a shortage of beds that has led to the postponement of surgeries, Health Minister Jeanne Atherden told the House of Assembly. “Our hospital is being used as a residenc...