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A woman who suffered a serious back injury in the staff kitchen of a law firm has won more than $500,000 in damages. Carla Jean Forth, represented in the Supreme Court by lawyer Sara-Ann Tucker, said the 2001 fall caused lingering back and hip pain t...

A coalition of environmental groups yesterday appealed to the Government to strengthen protection of nature reserves. Kim Smith, the executive director of the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce, said the island had lost “protected” land t...

A man accused of smuggling gun parts told the Supreme Court yesterday that he had “no idea” how the parts came to be in packages he sent to Bermuda. James Rumley, 39, said he posted the first package on behalf of a customer through his work with a US...

A Bermudian historian said the compulsory purchase of land in Tucker’s Town could be branded a land grab despite the creation of laws to allow it. Theodore Francis told the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses yesterday that the island’s p...

A Bermudian teacher has earned top honours at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia and been named the class valedictorian. Shannon Davis, who has completed a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Education at the Canadia...

A lawyer asked the Court of Appeal yesterday to allow a lawsuit against the Department of Child and Family Services to go ahead after it was struck out by an Acting Assistant Justice who had not been sworn in. Simone Smith Bean told the Court of Appe...

Former MP Rolfe Commissiong today branded the release of his resignation letter by David Burt, the Premier, as “unethical” and insisted he did not write it and only signed it under “extreme duress”. Mr Commissiong, who was unveiled as the Governmen...

The construction of a Second World War US base in St David’s was crucial to protect the island’s interests as well as those of the Allies, a Canadian historian has said. Duncan McDowall, speaking to the Commission of Inquiry on historical loss of lan...

A teenager yesterday denied that he robbed a Pembroke gas station using an imitation firearm. Samuel Taylor Jr, 17, pleaded not guilty to charges of robbery, use of an imitation firearm to commit an indictable offence and taking a motorcycle without ...

Supreme Court trials are scheduled to restart next week after a months-long halt caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said at yesterday’s arraignments session that work to reopen Supreme Court 1 in Sessions House with Co...