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An overgrown eyesore in a tight-knit neighbourhood is to be transformed into a community garden. The plot on Friswells Hill in Pembroke, owned by the Ball family, has been handed over free for three years so that area residents can grow crops. A mass...

A lifeline for people in need of financial aid because of the Covid-19 pandemic will be unveiled in the House of Assembly tomorrow. A spokesman for the Ministry of Labour said it would “ensure that individuals still in need of financial aid are trans...

Emotional goodbyes were said at the airport yesterday as scores of Portuguese workers left the island on a special flight to the Azores. Various reasons were given by the people scheduled to depart for the Portuguese territory. Some said they just wa...

Employers were urged to treat Portuguese staff fairly as a charter flight today prepared to take off for the Azores. Andrea Moniz-DeSouza, the Honorary Consul of Portugal, wrote on Facebook last Friday that the consulate had received “queries from Po...

Stress brought on by the pandemic has led more residents to seek help for drug and alcohol use. Focus Counselling has seen a rise in “people that wouldn’t normally participate in our services” as a result of Covid-19. Leslie Grant, the executive dire...

The Spirit of Bermuda sail training ship crossed the finish line first in a battle of speed as a three-day sailing rally wrapped up on Sunday. The rally, named after the Bermuda Sloop Foundation flagship, included the Bermuda Triangle Race on Saturd...

An antiracism group has updated its racial justice platform. The document from Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda said the country should make changes to become “a more equitable and just society” alongside the organisation’s economic and legislati...

An unhappy childhood split between Bermuda and the United States has produced a “hilarifying” memoir launched today by American publishing giant Simon & Schuster. Kirkland Hamill coined the word for the dark and twisted comedy he discovered in writin...

A giant canvas took over the walkway to Masterworks Museum of Art at the weekend as members of the public turned out to imagine things to come. A 200ft-long canvas was stretched out in the sunshine from the gallery entrance after the museum invited p...

Early birds over the next few days could catch a rare celestial sight as a comet streaks by in the northeastern sky. Comet NEOWISE, named after the Nasa mission that spotted it a few months ago, was snapped above Hamilton early yesterday by photograp...