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The last week in February was an ugly, humiliating one for South Africa. A country once considered a jewel of democracy on the African continent has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence. In a matter of days, more than 30 stores belonging to ...

Donald Trump’s political career was born amid the fever swamps of the far Right. He seized on a favourite conspiracy theory bubbling there — that Barack Obama was not, in fact, born in the United States and, therefore, was an illegitimate president —...

The Government has been called upon by Opposition MP Zane DeSilva to “prove me wrong” that the hotel development for St George’s would not be first in line for construction. Mr DeSilva said he understood that “some residences will be built before the...

The Bermuda Government has earmarked funds for local artists to participate in the 13th Caribbean Festival of Arts to be held in Barbados this year. Funding will be provided for more than 30 persons to perform in areas including music, dance, storyt...

A thanksgiving service will be held for Lord David Waddington in Britain on Thursday. Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda from 1992 to 1997 and a key political figure in the UK, died on February 23, aged 87. According to an obituary announcement in ...

The Mirrors Programme, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, has switched from its founding personal development company Uncommon Results to Quantum Learning Network. The details emerged in the House of Assembly as Nandi Outerbridge, the ...

The Government is moving forward with plans to relocate the Senate in the Sessions House, according to Michael Dunkley. Delivering the budget brief for Non-Ministerial departments at the House of Assembly yesterday, the Premier said that $2 million h...

The media’s job in strengthening the role of the Public Accounts Committee was among the agenda items for an overseas forum attended by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert, chairman of Bermuda’s PAC. The two-day conference’s discussion points were put forwar...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board had its budget cut in part because it had amassed $100 million in cash reserves, according to Bob Richards. Speaking during the debate on the 2017-18 Budget in the House of Assembly, the Minister of Finance noted the $25 m...

With the Bermuda Government spending under extra scrutiny during the Reply to the Budget debate, it was perhaps inevitable that the price tag for Sylvan Richards’ trip to the Olympics would come up on Friday night in the House of Assembly. The former...

Around 75 soldiers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment qualified yesterday for search and security duties for the upcoming America’s Cup. The soldiers spent an entire weekend training in search techniques for people and vehicles, as well as undergoing le...

MPs across parties agreed on one point during their debate over the Opposition’s Reply to the Budget: the island’s national debt must be brought back to heel. But the One Bermuda Alliance and Progressive Labour Party sparred over which side bore resp...