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Police are asking for help in locating a missing teenager.
Kassidy Rogers-Gibbons, 14, was last seen in the Aeolia Drive area in Devonshire around 8.15pm yesterday.
Mr Rogers-Gibbons is described a…

Police are asking for help in locating a missing teenager.
Arcedis Rawlins, 17, was last seen in the Aeolia Drive area of Devonshire at around 8.15pm yesterday.
Mr Rawlins is described as 6ft 1in tall…

As Bermuda struggles to launch a long-promised casino industry, another form of gambling on the island has disappeared — at least, officially. Punters who fancy a flutter no longer have the option…

The Bermuda Gaming Commission finally shared records with taxpayers from its monthly board meetings after Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez said there was an “evident and strong” public int…

Gaming regulators have kept their discussions about Bermuda’s failure to launch a casino industry largely a secret after releasing heavily redacted minutes of their meetings.
The Bermuda Gaming Commis…

The number of traffic tickets issued by police since a crackdown on driving offences was initiated two years ago has broken 10,000.
(changes from June in parentheses)
• Speeding 400 (+212); speeds ran…

The outlook for the hurricane season has been moved from “a near-normal level of activity to an above-normal level of activity” by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA’s update today cited “record-warm Atlantic sea surface temperatures”, which the agency said would likely counter the power of the El Niño system in the Pacific to suppress Atlantic tropical cyclones.
In May, the agency issued a forecast of 12 to 17 named storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher and, of those, five to nine that could become hurricanes, with winds of 74mph or higher — including one to four major hurricanes, category 3, 4 or 5, with winds of 111mph or higher.
The update stated: “NOAA’s update to the 2023 outlook — which covers the entire six-month hurricane season that ends on November. 30 — calls for 14-21 named storms (winds of 39mph or greater), of which 6-11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74mph or greater). Of those, 2-5 could become major hurricanes (winds of 111mph or greater).“
Hurricanes draw their power from the warmth of the sea, and ocean surface temperatures off Florida and into the Caribbean have climbed unusually high, potentially boosting the potency of storms.
Areas of warm ocean in the Atlantic have also expanded, increasing the range where hurricanes can form.
In May, NOAA officials gave the likelihood of an above-normal hurricane season as 30 per cent. That figure has been upped to 60 per cent.
At present, the US National Hurricane Centre shows no activity in the Atlantic expected over the next 48 hours.
The Atlantic hurricane season has so far produced a single hurricane, Don, which formed in July.
September and October are critical months in the season, which began on June 1.

The island “can no longer afford the politics of personal ambition and the settling of old scores”, the new Leader of the Opposition, Jarion Richardson, announced after he was sworn in by Rena Lalgie,…