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Major changes to the tax system and the introduction of a levy on capital gains were today signalled in the Progressive Labour Party’s Throne Speech blueprint for the next legislative year. The Throne Speech added legislation would be tabled to alter...

Ernest Peets is to be a senator and the Government Leader in the Upper House, it was revealed tonight. David Burt, the Premier, said he was “extremely pleased that Dr Peets has accepted this appointment”. Dr Peets is a certified family therapist, an...

“Unprecedented” unemployment in the island’s “worst jobs crisis in modern times” stands at double 2019 levels, the labour minister warned yesterday. Jason Hayward said further losses were expected with “large scale redundancies in hospitality and fin...

Bermudian acting legend Earl Cameron has died, aged 102. Mr Cameron was one of the first black performers to break into mainstream British entertainment. He was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2009 for his a...

A motorcade to celebrate Jessica Lewis’s medal success at the Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru, was held through the streets of Hamilton today. The wheelchair racer won medals in all three of her events in Lima, claiming gold in the T53 100 and 4...

Karen Woollery, the national director of Special Olympics Bermuda, hailed the importance of the Special Olympics World Summer Games for an athlete’s progression, not only on the sporting stage, but off of it as well. Bermuda will be sending a strong ...

Ross Caesar’s “last minute” decision to compete in the men’s classic physique at the Joe Weider’s Olympic Amateur South America in Medellin, Colombia, last weekend turned out to be a fruitful one. The experienced bodybuilder won the men’s classic Phy...

Missing boy Dean Lottimore Jr. has been found safe and well, police said today. Dean, 12, went missing in Pembroke at about 4pm yesterday. He was located at 10am, according to police. A police spokesman said this morning: “The Bermuda Police Service ...

Police have appealed for witnesses after two serious road crashes last night. A motorcyclist hit by a car this evening was taken to hospital with head and leg injuries. Police said the crash happened outside the Docksider Pub and Restaurant on Fron...

Emirates Team New Zealand finally sailed their America’s Cup Class yacht on the Great Sound for the first time today. Skipper Glenn Ashby has been like “a cat on a hot tin roof” waiting to get back out on the boat named New Zealand Aotearoa. “When yo...

Bermuda’s swimmers collected another ten medals on the final night of competition at the Carifta Swimming Championships in the Bahamas last night to take the team’s haul to 39, a Carifta record for the island, with three more gold medals. Prior to la...

Bermuda’s swimmers got their Carifta Swimming Championships off to a blistering start in Nassau, Bahamas at the weekend. At press time last night the island’s 15-strong contingent had secured 18 medals at the Betty Kelly-Kenning National Aquatic Cent...