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Landscape work at a development site on a former golf course had helped boost the environment for birds, the Minister of Home Affairs has said. Walter Roban added “a great deal of hard work” had gone into the creation of parkland at the old Riddell’...

A man told a commission set up to look at land losses that he had a paper trail of evidence to prove that his property was taken from him illegally – and that lawyers, real estate agents and banks played a role in the land grab. But Robert Moulder ga...

A family yesterday accused a neighbouring landowner of taking a slice of their property – now owned by the Spanish Point Boat Club – at the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses. Brittany Robinson said her great-grandfather, Heman Smith, bo...

Land and property was taken from a top ships’ pilot and left his descendants with “nothing”, the Commission of Inquiry into historic land losses heard yesterday. Winfield “Chuck” Simpson said he was speaking on behalf of his late mother Cecily Simps...

A plan to add blockchain technology to Bermuda’s land title registry has been dropped by the Government, The Royal Gazette can reveal. David Burt, the Premier, announced the project, in conjunction with the Bitfury Group, more than two years ago as p...

A developer has been ordered to pay legal costs after he abandoned an effort to fight the validity of a prosecution over a failed hotel project. Michael MacLean had asked for a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecution’s 2018 decision to ...

A plan to turn a former preschool into studio apartments and lofts has been given the green light by planning officials. The proposal to the Development Applications Board, submitted by the Bermuda Housing Corporation, suggested turning the old St Da...

A plan to turn a former preschool into studio apartments and lofts has been submitted to planners. The Bermuda Housing Corporation said it wanted to convert the old St David’s preschool on Battery Road and a building next door into 14 homes. The cor...

Demolition work has stopped at a landmark Hamilton building after asbestos was discovered. The Canadian Hotel, on Reid Street, which was built in the early 1920s, is being demolished after sitting derelict for more than a decade. Patrick Cooper, city...

A family who lost their title to a prime piece of land said a Commission of Inquiry into “land grabs” may not be able to compensate them. Etoile Burch, 98, said her family could even hold a claim on land now occupied by the Grand Atlantic condominium...

A perception of neglect at government properties has been traced to poor funding and “a lack of human resources and strategic planning”, according to Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch. Colonel Burch told the House that 59 vacant posts remained at the De...

Legislation designed to make it cheaper for property owners to register their title without a lawyer was passed in the Senate yesterday. Vance Campbell, a Progressive Labour Party senator, said the Land Title Registration Amendment Act would “smoot...