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In his submission to the Blue Ribbon Panel, Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert admitted that Bermuda needed a new airport, but then declared that “if it should result in any cost to the taxpayer, the answer is no”. The question, therefo...

Dear Sir, In a few months it will be the 100th anniversary of aviation in Bermuda. Many months ago, I asked the Bermuda Stamp Committee to commemorate the event with some sort of postal memorabilia/stamp but they said that the RAF 100th Anniversary w...

Barrister and attorney Kimberley Caines-Best to serve on the Bermuda Airport Authority’s board. She has also been appointed to the board’s governance and strategic initiatives committee. She was Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2010 and the...

The head of the island’s blue-collar union has denied the assertion by a former finance minister that union opposition to the public-private partnership to build a new airport was political. Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert hit out ye...

A government minister rejected advice from civil servants to block all-terrain vehicle tours on the Railway Trail, a court heard. The Supreme Court heard yesterday in a civil case that Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, overru...

A political agenda, not price, was behind union opposition to the airport redevelopment project, the man who spearheaded the deal has claimed. Bob Richards said that he did not believe a claim made by Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Indu...

Removal of mould in a Pembroke school cost more than $444,000, new figures have revealed. And renovations to the bathrooms at a Warwick school cost about $400,000. The cost of the mould work at Dellwood Middle School and the price of new bathrooms a...

The Bermuda Industrial Union was never opposed to the airport redevelopment project, the union’s president claimed yesterday. Chris Furbert said: “Let’s just be clear, because I think that, somehow or the other, [Craig] Cannonier and the One Bermuda...

A plane has been forced to land in Bermuda after a woman lost consciousness on board. The JetBlue flight from Antigua to New York City landed at LF Wade International Airport yesterday at about 8.20pm. A spokesman with the Bermuda Police Service sa...

Completion of roofing on the airport’s new terminal building was marked yesterday with a traditional roof-wetting ceremony. Aaron Adderley, the president of airport operator Skyport, said the event was a “magnificent milestone”. Construction on the ...

A passenger who lost consciousness on a flight is recovering today on a general ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. The victim, a 49-year-old Jamaican woman, took ill on a JetBlue flight from Antigua to New York yesterday. The flight diverted ...

A flight of Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets touched down at the airport yesterday. A spokeswoman for airport operators Skyport said the visit by the four jets was “a routine stop”. The Typhoons were accompanied by a Voyager Airbus 330 tanker/tra...